To remember

"But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth." 
- John 17: 13-19 

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? - Romans 8:32 

There is so much uncertainty, fear, setbacks and discouragements,  pain and pressure in this life... yet our sovereign God strips away every pain of its destructive power, so that we can have greater joy in Him. He gave up his own Son so that we can have all things-- the world, life, death, and God himself. What a good and loving Father! Sometimes I forget how good He is and go off to do everything on my own like an orphan. Today, on Good Friday, I want to remember that I am His child and I have a reason to sing ,to worship, to give praise!