God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

A biblical theology of persecution creates a framework for understanding God's sovereign purpose in allowing the evil dominions of darkness to inflict suffering on His children.

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had "troubles," frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had "complications." To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with "troubles," but they almost always succumbed to "complications."

Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

There is no one who can return from there,To describe their nature, to describe their dissolution,That he may still our desires,Until we reach the place where they have gone.

Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I'll miss you Until we meet again!