“…who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross…” The great Physician left His patients a personal prescription when facing pain. And this prescription He legibly wrote out in His Word: We are to look past pain. His example was to keep one’s eyes on the joy of the afterward, not the pain of the present.
When the soul is sorrowful, the spirit in agony, and the body wracked with pain, faith in a future joy enables us to endure the unpleasantness of life’s discomforts. I cannot help but believe this is what kept Job going. In the midst of all his sufferings, he knew there was a future day in which he would see God. What a joy to anticipate
Who cares about a long night, if an eternal day awaits.
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