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Therefore we are always confident

and know that as long as

we are at home in the body

we are away from the Lord.

We live by faith, not by sight. 

We are confident, I say, and

would prefer to be away from

the body and at home with

the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:6-8

Apostle Paul's life was majestic,

filled with sufferings.

Since he was called by

Jesus to spread the good news of

the eternal life of Jesus.

His preference was to be in

the eternal home of the Lord

away from the home of his body;

it was while his ministry was fruitful

in his daily life with the Trinity.

It's because as long as he was in

his body he was not at the home

of the Lord Jesus.

His highest preference and hope

were nearing everyday his reality.

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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 !