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2 Corinthians 9:6 Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Years ago, I met a patient who was convinced that he had bent the laws of physics.  Overweight by a couple hundred pounds, he insisted that he did not eat anything.  He swore that he had gone…
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2 Corinthians 7:10 Godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. When I was in treatment, I came to hate the place.  I needed it, but it felt like prison to me.  Those around me, having been to prison, assured me that I was a cupcake and…
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2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. While in treatment for chemical dependency, I was taught that one of the pillars of recovery is to have a strong support group of family and friends.  I know this to be true from my own experience of but I also know it to be…
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2 Corinthians 5:20,21 We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. My self-esteem, like most people’s, is a bit of a paradox.  I am, at once, self-loathing and…
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2 Corinthians 5:16,17 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh… If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. In my addiction, I came to dislike this passage.  As I was enslaved to my flesh nature, I did not…
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2 Corinthians 5:7 We walk by faith, not by sight. After we read this passage last night, I asked my family if there was a difference between belief and faith.  My son, who is training for his driver’s license, said that I could believe he was a good driver but I could not practice faith…
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2 Corinthians 4:16-18 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day… as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are…
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2 Corinthians 4:7 We have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. I am always a little hesitant when someone teaches that I am delivered from a defect in coming to Christ.  I do absolutely believe that the only adequate solution to the problem…
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2 Corinthians 4:4 The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light… I have met alcoholics, who though dying from alcohol, still found it impossible to stop.  Though they had turned yellow from liver failure, they would still sneak away to the bathroom to consume…
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2 Corinthians 3:18 We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. When I first started at my gym, I found it maddening that so many people could do so much that I could not.  It was not just…
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