I just listened to this sermon from Aug 31, 2014 by Voddie Baucham. Such a good one if you are going through a hard time. It is encouragement for a Christian to endure suffering well, even unto death, realizing God is good all the time. To live well (meaning for God's glory) is one thing, but to die well or watch someone you dearly love die, and you endure it giving glory to the Father--that is a product of a life lived for God.
...Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning! Amen.
(entire phrase is Ps 30:5 For His anger endureth but a moment, and in His favor is life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.)
Enduring suffering well is indicative of spiritual maturity that has an outgrowth of fruit to the Lord's Kingdom, in that when the lost witness strength, peace, and quiet impossible in the natural, God receives glory as it makes such people curious after our Lord Jesus Christ presenting opportunity to tell of the wonderful Savior and reason for our hope. Blessings in Christ.
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