Not to be conceited

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To keep me from becoming conceited

because of these surpassingly

great revelations, there was given me

a thorn in my flesh,

a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

2 Corinthians 12:7

Even God's people can be

abandoned by conceit.

Conceit pushes God away from

the center of one's heart

and one acts as if one is God.

God prevented from the conceit of

Apostle Paul through whom

he blessed the menkind the second

most.

Yet he knows the weaknesses of

men who can be tempted by devil

as long as they are in the bodies.

To prevent this God allowed a little

that God's enemy devil, Satan

could attack Apostle Paul so that

he can be alert and strong to finish

his task.

But that attack was tormenting him.

And that made him totally depend on

God until the end of his life.

When God's faithful workers suffer

greatly unreasonably, this reality

can be one of the reasons.

The 2 Corinthians is the Apostle Paul's second letter to the 

Corinthian Churches. Letter is the most intimate and personal.

Two thousand years ago, the Corinth city in Greece reminds

us today's New York city. The Corinth seaboard city was

then a center of trade, merchandize, wealth and luxury.

Also there was the Venus temple which led people not only

to moral deterioration but also sexual disaster.

The original location of Humanism, which against Creator God

and focus on human, the Corinth city in Greece lay in

spiritually formless, empty and darkness.

Here by God's mercy small lights began to shine. They were the

Lord Jesus' house Churches. They belong to the low social class.

Envious and jealous devil attempted to destroy God's

House Churches by questioning Paul's integrity and Apostleship.

And it caused to delay and complicate the promised loving

collection as well for the poverty stricken Jerusalem church.  

It was the process of the life giving Gospel to us, and it

continues so. How beautiful are the feet those who

bring good news !