2 Corinthians 2:4
I wrote that letter in great anguish, with a troubled heart and many tears. I didn’t want to grieve you, but I wanted to let you know how much love I have for you.
We often think of the Apostle Paul as a hard-hitting, no-nonsense preacher. And he was. But he was also a tender, even vulnerable, shepherd. Did he have a split personality? Not at all. The love of God was shed abroad in his heart, and it was out of that love that he acted and reacted, to which analysis he would be quick to add, “Yet not I, but Christ in me.”
