Your Suffering Is Working for You // Ask Pastor John

What does pain produce? What’s it doing in our lives? John Piper explains why Christians should not lose heart in suffering.

When it comes to suffering and pain, none of us are immune. Worse, the pain so often seems pointless, and in fact pain in our lives is not pointless at all. So what does suffering produce? What’s it doing in our lives?

John Piper addressed this question in his 2013 sermon, “The Glory of God in the Sight of Eternity”. There he addressed 2 Corinthians 4:16–18, and I’ll read it: “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”

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“When Depression Descends, Do the Next Thing” https://youtu.be/rbPjtB-xMjM

“What Can We Say to Friends Facing Suffering?” https://youtu.be/WXIbMUS4vUE

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