"On the inside where God is making new life . . ."

Thanks to Rus Roach for calling attention to this verse on the working of HIS SPIRIT:

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

The Message (MSG)

16-18 So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There’s far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever.

After posting this, I was prompting someone to see the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Looking at the trailer again, I joyfully heard the Indian saying "Everything will be better in the end. If it is not yet better, then it is not yet the end!"  :-)  That is more than optimism, that is to me a Christian attitude.