If you only knew MY circumstances :O(

If you only knew MY circumstances  :O(

II Cor. 11: 23 – 29, 32 - 33
Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool [I am talking like one beside himself and full of himself], [but] I am more,

with far more extensive and abundant labors, with far more imprisonments, beaten with countless stripes, and frequently [at the point of] death.

Five times I received from [the hands of] the Jews forty [lashes all] but one;

Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been aboard a ship wrecked at sea; a [whole] night and a day I have spent [adrift] on the deep;

Many times on journeys, [exposed to] perils from rivers, perils from bandits, perils from [my own] nation, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the desert places, perils in the sea, perils from those posing as believers [but destitute of Christian knowledge and piety];

In toil and hardship, watching often [through sleepless nights], in hunger and thirst, frequently driven to fasting by want, in cold and exposure and  lack of clothing.

And besides those things that are without, there is the daily [inescapable pressure] of my care and anxiety for all the churches!

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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Pray the Word:

Lord, what circumstances in our life have WE really GONE THROUGH that would give us the entitlement to either boast in them --- or whine about them? . . . .  Not enough to even mention!! So, today [& every day] I will count myself blessed beyond measure & will not succumb to bellyaching.