Title: Your Inner Man is Renewed Daily.

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‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4:16‬ ‭KJV‬
[16] For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 
https://bible.com/bible/1/2co.4.16.KJV
Devotion: Paul wrote this letter to his friends, the congregants in the young church in Corinth because he knows their feeling and what they went through. Members were beaten, threatened, imprisoned for Christ but they were not broken (2 Corinthians 4: 8-9). They went through all these so that they will grow in Christ though their mortal bodies suffer waste. 
 The same with you and me today, we maybe lucky not to suffer beating, imprisonment for spreading the word of God. Sometimes we are despised by colleagues, "friends" and relatives when we stop doing things eg wild parties, drinking alcohol, gambling or altering the books in the office. That should not deter us from continuing to live right in Christ.
 As we grow old our bodies become weak, we are not sharp like before but as we grow in the knowledge of God's word this should make us more tolerant, less self centred. We should start seeing things differently, more patient and peaceful with others while we correct in love of Christ not harshly. We should be more compassionate and joyful as elderly children of God. In simple terms our inner man is renewed in Christ with age.
 Paul had this to say in ‭‭‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4:16‭-‬18‬ ‭KJV‬‬ "For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;  while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."
 Therefore I urge you dear reader not to despair but to press on till the crown of glory is attained. May God help us in Jesus name. Amen.

©Dr Joel Olanrewaju wrote this and more devotionals you can find on my page at ojaysjoel.blodspot.com. You can reach me on gbemide09@gmail.com for questions, suggestions, counseling and prayer requests 

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