7You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we. 8For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame, 9for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters. 10For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.”11Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.
One of our failures as human beings is we look at the outward appearance of things and judge accordingly. Jesus judges by the contents of the heart.
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 10:7-11
In outward appearance, Paul was mean and despised in the eyes of some, but this was a false rule to judge by. We must not think that none outward appearance, as if the want of such things proved a man not to be a real Christian, or an able, faithful minister of the lowly Saviour.
http://www.christianity.com/bible/commentary.php?com=mhc&b=47&c=10
How do you want to be remembered? I wish to be remembered as a person whom had a heart for Jesus, a faithful minister.
Blessings, David
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