In 2 Corinthians 11, he goes on a tear about the qualification of his hardships that blows our stupid complaints out of the water. He’d been sick, tortured, near death, and shipwrecked. He knew what it was like to be hated, starved, and attacked. Paul knew suffering. And yet he was totally abandoned to Jesus. Something extraordinary had happened to him. One day, while he was minding his own religious business, he got hijacked by grace, waylaid by Jesus Christ. Paul stepped into the bear trap of the gospel. And, ever after, he was “all in.” If he was in a pit, he was all in that pit. If that’s
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