I am reading a book that a friend let me borrow, Keep a Quiet Heart by Elisabeth Elliot. As I was reading tonight, this quote especially penetrated my heart...
"It was at the cross that Jesus dealt with all our sins, griefs, and sorrows. He calls us to give up all right to ourselves, take up the cross, and follow. This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself, so painful and bewildering, is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to travail in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, and meekness--in short, to learn the depths of love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us. It is His love that must be manifest in you as you quietly submit to what hurts you (Jesus submitted, too)...."
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