
Redemption ensures that our suffering matters and is never for nothing.
Our Father is not unaware of what befalls us on this journey from cradle to grave. He has not turned His head. He is not asleep.
Our pain is neither wasted nor overlooked, for He vigilantly watches over His own, especially tender to the wounded and the broken.
He sees. He notices.
He, moved by our sorrow, bottles our tears and bears our burdens, redeeming them all for His glory and His Kingdom purposes.
It won’t always be this way, beloved. It won’t. The pain won’t always be at a fever pitch. The sorrow won’t always crush. The fear won’t always consume.
Hang on! He is up to something new, just on the other side of suffering, as He painstakingly works for each of us, “a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
II Corinthians 4:17