Take a rest and remember this

Take a rest from the fight
Don’t try to figure it out
Just listen to what I’m whispering to your heart
‘Cause I know this is not
Anything like you thought
The story of your life was gonna be
And it feels like the end has started closing in on you
But it’s just not true
There’s so much of the story that’s still yet to unfold

And this is going to be a glorious unfolding
Just you wait and see and you will be amazed
You’ve just got to believe the story is so far from over
So hold on to every promise God has made to us
And watch this glorious unfolding

Glorious Unfolding by Steven Curtis Chapman

Our obedience to God

Because we are free

our obedience to God is difficult:

it can be achieved only after contest and struggle,

and just this makes the reward of obedience

even more to be sought after.

– Irenaeus (Haer. IV.37.6–7).