Eternal purpose

from Love Wins by Rob Bell

Comment from Flying Free: I read this particular page and thought of all you beautiful souls and what you do behind the scenes while people who call themselves Christians rage and gnash their teeth at you.

Keep going. There is great purpose behind your struggle. Eternal purpose.

Excerpt from book:
Think about the single mom, trying to raise kids, work multiple jobs, and wrangle child support out of the kids' father, who used to beat her. She's faithful, true, and utterly devoted to her children. In spite of the circumstances, she never loses hope that they can be raised in love and go on to break the cycle of dysfunction and abuse. She never goes out, never takes a vacation, never has enough money to buy anything for herself. She gets a few hours of sleep and then repeats the cycle of cooking, work, laundry, bills, more work, until she falls into bed at night, exhausted.

With what she has been given she has been faithful. She is a woman of character and substance. She never gives up. She is kind and loving even when she's exhausted.

She can be trusted.
Is she the last who Jesus says will be first?

Does God say to her: "You're the kind of person I can run the world with?"