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\u201cTherefore we do not lose heart.\u00a0 Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As a young man, I used to commute an hour each way to work every day by bicycle; the money it saved helped to support the family, and it was healthy exercise.\u00a0 But now, it can take me that same hour to get from bed to my first cup of coffee while still in my pyjamas!<\/p>\n And funerals are now beginning to become a part of life.\u00a0 Perishing is a reality!<\/p>\n If our hopes are based on the physical fitness of youth, the latest gadgets, our favourite hobbies, or the people God has given us to love and care for, we will be disappointed.\u00a0 The fitness goes, technology gets beyond us, our hands for hobbies grow weak, and too many families fragment.<\/p>\n The amazing outcome is that we do not lose heart or despair, we are given new hope each day, and new purpose and tasks.\u00a0 Even while we are aware of how we fall short of who Christ wants us to be, this still points to the fulfilment of his promise, in Romans 8:11, \u201c\u2026 He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Our hope lies in what Jesus has already achieved on the cross, and the new life he gives as he lives in us.<\/p>\n Verse 4:18 reads, \u201c\u2026 the things which are not seen are eternal.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cTherefore we do not lose heart.\u00a0 Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.\u201d The outward man is perishing As a young man, I used to commute an hour each way to work every day by bicycle; the money it saved helped to support the family, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-verses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29423,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27051\/revisions\/29423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The outward man is perishing<\/strong><\/h3>\n
The inward man is being renewed day by day<\/strong><\/h3>\n