Be Still And Know

READ: 2 Corinthians 1:8-9 NLT 'We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead.' We all experience hard times. They are an unavoidable part of life. It may be a sudden illness, a road accident, a broken relationship or a hard time at work. No-one is immune. Paul certainly didn’t manage to avoid hard times and is very honest about them, as we see in this passage. The question is what do you do with hard times? We don’t know exactly what Paul is describing but he was clearly staring death in the face. He may be referring to one of the occasions when he was faced with physical violence, although some Bible scholars think that it refers to illness. Whatever it was , the result of this experience was that he lear