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                       Boundless Joy

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I have great confidence in you;

I take great pride in you.

I am greatly encouraged;

in all our troubles my joy knows

no bounds. 2 Corinthians 7:4

To the childlike Corinthian Church

believers whom Paul helped to

know Jesus, after pleading with them

to live holy life Paul writes his heart.

I have great confidence in you;

I take great pride in you.

I am greatly encouraged;

in all our troubles my joy knows

no bounds because of you.

Freud said his goal of

psychotherapy is to bring

his patients to the level of

normal misery.

To me it was no benefits to teach

much about his therapy so I taught

mostly his diagnosis only.

The goal of Jesus for the believers

who become his children is to give

life eternally and in its fullness.

And he keeps doing for them.

This is the cause that Paul has

such a confidence in Corinthian

Church believers and boundless joy.

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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 !