If you want to be a solid, weighty, radiant old man or woman someday, let the pain in your life force you to believe your own theology. Let it propel you into deeper fellowship with Christ than ever before. Don't let your heart dry up. He is in your pain. He is refining you. All that you will lose, Sibbes reminds us, is the dross of Self and misery that in your deepest heart you want to shed anyway. God loves us too much to let us remain shallow. How frothy and facile we would be if we lived all of life without pain.
Your tears are his tools.
Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners by Dane C. Ortlund. Crossway. 2021. p.133. 134
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