2 Corinthians 12:5 Commentary and Bible Study

Look at me, says the apostle, and what will you see? Something wonderful? Something glorious? No, you will see a relatively diminutive man in weakness, probably sick and scarred from sufferings and weary, a man who cannot speak as well as the polished Greek orators, a man with various infirmities and sometimes seemingly with the whole world against him, a nobody, the off-scourings of the world, he says. But you look at me, that is what you see, a weak and inadequate human being.But that experience which God gave me, to be encouraged by the sight of paradise and the Son of God, that is what drives me, that view into the future. In that will glory, what is coming, what lies ahead, that is what I will glory in.‘For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear.’ I have said enough. Lest any man should elevate me above what he sees me to be, or that which he hears of me.