Joni Eareckson Tada who has spent the last 41 years in a wheel chair, prays, “Oh, thank you, thank you for this wheel chair! By tasting hell in this life, I’ve been driven to think seriously about what faces me in the next. This paralysis is my greatest mercy” (Christianity Today, January, 2004, 50).
I may never know the "hell" of living in a wheelchair, but may I count the portion of "hell" given me here on earth as my greatest mercy, that I might consider my heavenly home more than this one! A seriously challenging thought to ponder!
"Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed." Romans 8:17-19
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