Paul’s Vision and His Thorn

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

 ¹  I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from  the Lord.
²   I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.
³  And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows—
⁴  was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.
⁵  I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.
⁶  Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say,
⁷  or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
⁸  Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
⁹  But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
¹⁰  That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.


I believe we all have a thorn in our side.It will be there always just as Paul's was.