For Suffering

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I want to find your spirit that has been inside all along.
You poured your love into my heart when I suffered.
At the worst, you were there.
The suffering is cultivating an endurance to keep seeking after you.
The endurance is producing a character that is forming into your image.
The character is requiring a hope in everything that is life.
And my life is you.

In the suffering I died.
It was a death for Christ's sake.
For he lives in me so his life can be known.
"So death is at work in [me], but life in you."
So I will rejoice in suffering because it is the Holy Spirit working in me.
And I will shout for joy in death.



*I humbly come before God and thank Him for all He has done.

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