Paul's Perplexity but Not Despair
StoryHistorical Account★★★★We are troubled on every side, but not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Cast down, but not destroyed. For which cause we faint not, though our outward man perisheth, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are unseen are eternal.
Arruda, Gabriel, “Disappointed but Not Discouraged” (AudioVerse teaching 34153).
The point
The preacher cites Paul's experience of being perplexed but not in despair, emphasizing the key of looking at unseen eternal things.