Is suffering meaningless?
How do we respond when life seems meaningless? When the suffering hits and the wave of suffering we feel seem, itself, to be totally pointless, what then? So, Paul really does experience not losing heart because of truths, realities that he puts into his head day by day, day by day, for renewal. Look to the Unseen Now, one more step: What about the for at the beginning of 2 Corinthians 4:17? We’re going to beat verse 16 to death if we don’t move on. But my, there’s a lot of life in there. He doesn’t give up easily. I love to pound on verses till they’re dead. That’s an odd way to say it, isn’t it? We do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For [because] this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. (2 Cori