I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."