It Is For Christ's Sake

 Human nature dictates that none of us can be content with weakness or insults. No-one delights in difficulties and distresses and naturally speaking none of us are happy to be persecuted or ridiculed. But this verse contains a very important modifying phrase: "FOR CHRIST's SAKE." It Is For Christ's Sake that we are content to be insulted and to suffer persecutions, and it is by His grace that we can be content in the middle of the difficulties and distresses that assail our lives.
 The vital clue to understanding this verse is to recognize the significance of that little phrase: "FOR CHRIST's SAKE." We have been saved by grace through faith in Him, and for His sake and His glory we should endeavor to graciously share the glorious gospel of Christ with those that insult us and cause us distresses and difficulties. For Christ's sake, we should be content to suffer various persecutions, pains, and difficulties, knowing that He not only gives us the necessary strength to endure, but that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
2 Corinthians 12:10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, we pray that we may learn to be content in all things for Christ's sake. Help us to be increasingly conscious of our own human weaknesses so that we may be supplied, day by day, by the strength of Your mighty power. Then, when we are at our lowest and weakest point in our lives, we can be sure that we are at our strongest in You. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.