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Daily Text
There was given me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan, to keep striking me, that I might not be overly exalted. In this behalf I three times entreated the Lord that it might depart from me. -2 Cor. 12: 7, 8, NW.
False apostles, disturbers and assailants of Paul's apostleship and work would be a 'thorn in the flesh', to keep him from getting too elated over his ministry. But if the 'thorn' was an irremovable affliction of his eyes or other part of his body, it could serve as an angel of Satan to prick him with pessimism or an inferiority complex and a consequent discouragement. Whatever the thorn's nature, he prayed three times for its removal. He did so at a time when the gift of the spirit for healing was still bestowed and operated. The Lord did not answer his triple prayer but assured him of undeserved kindness. Because Paul was left weak by the unextracted thorn, it gave the Lord the opportunity to give Paul the strength to do things which were not his own. This showed that Christ's power overshadowed him. W 5/1
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TRANSMITTING THE TRUE RECORD
JEHOVAH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book." That was in 1513 B .C. It is the first divine command to write, and it indicates Jehovah's purpose to have important matters recorded. Memorial of them was not to be entrusted to oral transmission subject to corruption by fallible human memory. The ...
