“There are the good things of this world, the hard things of this world, and the best things of this world—God’s love, glory, holiness, beauty. The Bible’s teaching is that the road to the best things is not through the good things but usually through the hard things… There is no message more contrary to the way the world understands life or more subversive to its values.”
—Timothy Keller
My prayer this week: Dear Jesus, walk with me through the difficult days I’m facing, personally and in the world around me. Help me feel your love and experience your holiness even now. I trust that you’ll meet me in the hard things and that my victory will glorify you.
