In the previous episode, I explained that the Scriptures reveal a sacred link between suffering and glory. All of our grief, pain, illness, persecution, and anxiety has a cosmic purpose that magnifies God and brings eternal good to those who are in Christ.  Before I address the process of sanctification, in which God makes us more like Jesus through suffering– I will talk more about this in future episodes– I want to sit with you in your pain.  Why?  Because I’m in pain, too. I don’t know what you’re going through, but I know we all have it. And if we’re not in a season of suffering now, we either just got out of one, or there is one coming. It’s just a reality of life in this broken world where sin and death are present.  But we are not alone.  This is the promise of God to His children, originally stated in Deuteronomy 31:6 and then restated with personal pronouns in Hebrews 13:5– God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."  Never means never. God doesn’t lie. He always keeps His word.   But what if you don’t feel it? But what if you don’t feel God?  That is what this podcast is all about. I pray that the Holy Spirit will reveal His presence to you by grace and through faith. If He does for even just one person