…What He has called me to be…by His grace…through my temporary suffering…unto His eternal glory…by Jesus.

Sometimes I become discouraged by the lack of evidence of His work in my life.

But I believe He is working. So I claim this blessing for myself:

“But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you” (1 Peter 5:10).

Wow! God Himself is at work in me, making me that way!

I wonder what kind of perspective this put on the sufferings and persecutions being endured by the original recipients of Peter’s letter.