Tender Mercies of the Lord

Yesterday was a very difficult day for me. I began my day with a very personal attack in my email inbox. My initial feeling was anger. Immediately after reading & responding to this email, I walked back out to finish getting my precious daughters ready to go off to school. Part of our morning ritual is reading scriptures together. I opened our New Testament to 2 Corinthians 4 and began reading where we had left off on Wednesday. The first two verses and the last two verses of our daily scripture study spoke to my heart and immediately removed my anger and replaced it with comfort and the love of the Lord. I wanted to share what has been so meaningful to me--I went back and reread it several times throughout the day yesterday.
2 Corinthians 4: 8-9; 17-18
"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed, we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed...For our light affliction, which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."
I know the Lord looks on my heart. I will stand steadfast and immovable in my faith. I have no fear of the final judgment, rather a perfect brightness of hope of eternal life. I know in whom I have trusted. I know that the Lord knows He can depend on me. I will not let him down. I am forever grateful for His tender mercies. He strengthens me in my weaknesses and comforts me in my sorrows. How I love the Lord, Jesus Christ!