The Grands Letter

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Dear Grands,

2 Corinthians 4:6-11, “For God, who said, ‘Light shall shine out of darkness,’ is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;

8 we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;

9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;

10 always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

11 For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.”

There are not many things we can seriously count on in the day in which we currently live. “Rights” have been turned into “wrongs”; and concepts that were once clear and indisputable, are now so scrambled that even those who once stood for them in principle are threatening absence as “push comes to shove.”

Still, what we have, we have securely! Jesus Christ is our stability in all things pure. Thus, if those things we once held sacred, seem to be slipping away, we may be certain that Christ is the sure foundation! We believed upon Him once, and once is sufficient for eternal stability! At the same time, He is forever “our strength and stay, a very present help in time of trouble.”

My recent readings have been in the Old Testament; however, we ought to study well the life of the Apostle Paul in the New Testament. It was he who was soundly converted on that Damascus Road, only to find himself in the venomous ways of intolerant hate, all due to his unflinching fellowship with the LORD Jesus Christ and continuous application of Scripture to those who needed Christ as Savior and Lord.

The clouds that currently darken over us suggest that we might be experiencing the same enemy, who was known to Paul. Yet, the Life of our Blessed LORD lives within us, keeping us separated from all attacks that Satan throws at us daily. Praise be to the LORD!

Heartily in Christ,

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

United States of America

We will never know that Christ is all we need,

Until He becomes all that we have. – Corrie ten Boom