Though you slay me

Hello all! Sorry, I meant to post on Good Friday, however, I was struggling with some sort of cold, and was too weak and tired. Feeling better, with just a cough that's extremely irritating!
It got me thinking a lot this week, about when we're afflicted with pain and misery, and I looked up a couple Bible verses.
Romans 8:18

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us."

2 Corinthians 4:16  
"So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day."

Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through him who strengthens me."

Romans 5:3-4 

"More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope..."

Psalm 119:71  "It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes."

Psalm 34:19  "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all."

Not only is all your affliction momentary; not only is all your affliction light, in comparison to eternity, and the glory there, but all of it is totally meaningful! Every millisecond, of your pain from the fallen nature or fallen man; every millisecond of your misery in the path of obedience is producing a peculiar glory, you will get because of that! It might be cancer, or criticism! It might be slander or sickness! It wasn't, meaningless! It's doing something! It's not meaningless! Of course you can't see what He's doing! Don't look to what is seen... when your mom dies, when your kid dies, you've got cancer at 40, when a car careens into the sidewalk and takes her out... don't say it's meaningless; it's not! It's working for you, and eternal wait of glory! Therefore, do NOT lose heart! But take these truths, and day by day, focus on them! Preach them to yourself every morning. Get alone with God, and preach His word into your mind until your heart sings with confidence, that you are new and cared for!
Shane and Shane: Though you Slay Me:
I come, God, I come
I return to the Lord
The one who's broken
The one who's torn me apart
You struck down to bind me up
You say You do it all in love
That I might know You in Your suffering
Though You slay me
Yet I will praise You
Though You take from me
I will bless Your name
Though You ruin me
Still I will worship
Sing a song to the one who's all I need
My heart and flesh may fail
The earth below give way
But with my eyes, with my eyes I'll see the Lord
Lifted high on that day
Behold, the Lamb that was slain
And I'll know every tear was worth it all
Though You slay me
Yet I will praise You
Though You take from me
I will bless Your name
Though You ruin me
Still I will worship
Sing a song to the one who's all I need
Though tonight I'm crying out
Let this cup pass from me now
You're still all that I need
You're enough for me
You're enough for me
Though You slay me
Yet I will praise You
Though You take from me
I will bless Your name
Though You ruin me
Still I will worship
Sing a song to the one who's all I need
Sing a song to the one who's all I need

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