Life is fraught with afflictions. Health challenges, financial woes, broken relationships… I could go on and on. Regardless of what challenge you are currently facing, you can know that you aren’t facing it alone. As shared yesterday, He is with you. And these afflictions are temporary. The troubles of this world will not follow us into eternity. When we leave our earthly body behind, we’ll leave our pain, our sorrow, our fear, our failures, too. When we reach Heaven’s threshold, I believe we will understand the purpose in every moment of suffering we bore on this earth and, as the old hymn states, “it will be worth it all when we see Jesus.”
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