Paul Tournier

But the idea of keeping life or finding life is developed here along the lines of a different picture, which is the picture of living a life that will bear fruit.

In a quote that has, um, stayed in my mind ever from I first read it, from the Swiss physician of the mid-20th century, Paul Tournier, he said, "The purpose of life is not the absence of suffering, but that the suffering should bear fruit." Bearing fruit in the Bible is a picture of a life that is flourishing and finding its purpose.

It's, it's, it's a picture that's used frequently, so for example, the tree by the rivers of water that bears fruit in season and out of season.

So right at the very beginning, when Adam and Eve were created, God commissioned them to be fruitful.

Let me quote to you from two of the top psychiatrists and marriage experts in the world.

Dr. Paul Tournier, the Swiss psychiatrist who wrote Understanding Each Other.

He says, quote, "So-called incompatibility is a myth invented by judges in order to make a plea for divorce.

It's likewise a common excuse for people to hide their failings.

Transformational book.

Swiss psychologist Paul Tournier, Christian, wrote a book called The Strong and the Weak.

And the whole book's thesis is everyone in the world is desperately insecure.

And we manifest it either in strong responses or in weak responses.

The verse I was referring to comes from 2 Corinthians 5, 6.

Therefore, this is Paul writing, we're all confident.

We are always confident.

We know that as long as we're at home in the body, we're away from Jesus.

Jesus will not abandon us depending on our seasonality with him.

And he prayed for us.

Great, okay, let's go back to Paul.

We live by faith, not by what? Sight.