There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. —2 CORINTHIANS 4:13–17 Paul was beaten three times with rods, five times with forty stripes save one, three times he was shipwrecked, arrested on numerous occasions (2 Cor. 11:23–27), and he calls this persecution “our light affliction”! He did so understanding that our trials and tribulations only last for a “moment.” Perhaps Psalm 119:165 sums up the attitude believers should take toward offense: “Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble”—nothing will trip them up and cause them to fall. As you spiritually mature and the lines of time form tiny marks on your face, you will awake to the realization that you now have a limited time on earth. Perhaps then you will realize that life is too short to spend chained in the cave of unforgiveness, hiding from the faces of friends and family for the sake of protecting old wounds. There is one type of person who is totally impossible to offend—and I mean that nothing you do or say can get that person to respond in a negative manner—and that is a dead man . If you attend his homegoing service at the local funeral home, you could comment to others (please don’t, however), “That is the ugliest-looking suit I have ever seen on him,” or “That makeup on his face looks like someone out of a horror movie,” or “Man, don’t he look like he’s aged twenty years!”