What we know isn't always the same as what we experience. And what we were made for isn't always what we currently look like. But Paul offers us hope in this passage - though we may groan here and now, we were made for more than this.

Its very easy to grow discouraged in life. we fail to meet up to expectations, we face pressure and languish under affliction of all kind. Yet in all these things we do not lose heart.....

What a glorious contrast-the Old Covenant and the New. Life vs death; freedom vs bondage; lasting glory vs a glory that fades; transformation........