Is Not The Cross Greater?

Today's verse is 2 Corinthians 1:8-10
     For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
     But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
     Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; 

What trouble looms over you? What trial do you face? Do you face even possible death? Or some sort of shame? Is any of this greater than the Cross? Who is your hope? By whom do you trust? Does he not have the right to ask it of you? Did He not himself die for you? Has he not raised others, Himself included, from the dead? If we truly consider the Cross and Resurrection and what Jesus Christ did for us, what is there that is too much for him to ask of us? And of what is there, if it fits his purpose, that he cannot deliver us from. But remember those three men that faced the fiery furnace, whether or not God delivered them, they were willing to enter in, rather than to deny the True God, creator of all. Selah [Think about that.] Amen.

To God be the Glory
Scott

Taken from my daily reading plan: Isaiah 60-63, 2 Corinthians 1
Monday’s reading will be: Isaiah 64-66, 2 Corinthians 2