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The thorn in my flesh

In the last 3 weeks, I have heard 4 sermons on 2 Corinthians 12:1-10. Two from the pulpit at Intown, 2 that I've listened to as part of our pastor search. This passage is the inspiration behind my blog title and the Lord has been laying this theme of his grace being sufficient for my weakness on my heart for quite awhile now. Clearly pretty hard in the last 3 weeks! I've been trying to figure out what the thorn in my flesh is. There are a number of things in the running, but I'm not sure that there necessarily has to be one.

It was also very interesting how the four sermons were all on the same text and in some ways very similar, yet all so different. And each was exactly what I needed to hear at the time. The one point that they all drove home is that a deeper knowledge of God is what I need. Not all of the things that I vainly chase after, but Christ. He is sufficient. "I want to know Christ and the power of the resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead."

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