When suffering grows long
When suffering grows long… Pretense is cast away and the true colors of our faith are revealed. Questions surface, doubts speak, and endurance wears thin. This is when we are purified by fire. How will we answer the questions? How will we fight the doubts? How will we keep going through the suffering when the endurance all but disappears? The answer is simple. So simple in fact, that we easily overlook it. We can’t. Our own resources are not enough to pull us through. And when we finally embrace that fact, we open ourselves up to One greater than our weakness. He steps amid the rubble of our broken lives, sees the crushed self-will, the shredded self-confidence, the sense that all control is lost, and finds us in a place where He can do something with us. For before the long season of suffering began, though we thought we had built up something He could use, He saw how we were trying to mix self in with His power. And He also saw the great potential for His power to be able to