WORTH IT

"Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later."
Romans 8:18 (NLT)

“Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you.”
John 15:20 (NLT)

“I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows.”
John 16:33 (NLT)

"For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.  And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering.  We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us."
Romans 8:22-23 (NLT)

"Six days later Jesus took Peter and the two brothers, James and John, and led them up a high mountain to be alone.  As the men watched, Jesus’ appearance was transformed so that his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light."
Matthew 17:1-2 (NLT)

“We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)”
Romans 8:24-25 (NLT)

“The most horrible life on earth filled with the most atrocious sufferings will be seen from the view point of heaven to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.”
Mother Teresa