2 Corinthians 5 & 4

Thank you, father, for calling me to your salvation and for placing me in Christ. By your grace, I am a new creature. The ine old things have passed away, behold, everything about me that counts has become new.

Everything about me now is of you, father. You have reconciled me to youself through Jesus Christ, and you have given me a ministry of reconciliation. You were in Christ, father, reconciling the world back to yourself.

I belong to you, father. You chose me. So, I do not lose hope even though my outward man is perishing, yet the inward man (the new man, the divine man) is being renewed day by day.

The worldly tribulations and afflictions of this life are brief compared to eternity and, by your grace and plan, father, they work in me an exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

For I know that you, father, who raised up the Lord Jesus, will also raise me up with Jesus and you will present me to yourself. Help me today, father, to be well pleasing to you.