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Not Dead Yet: Fighting Nine Fears of Old Age

Messages by Desiring God

CHAPTER

Fighting the Fear of Affliction

The most significant, useful, glorious thing that Patty accomplished in the last hours of her life was she did not curse God. Period. She couldn't do any praising but she could have spit out some real ugly stuff if she had felt like it and she didn't. You do what you can do, right? Number six, fighting the fear of affliction. Now here I have in mind just about everything you can imagine. But I want especially to point out something really precious. And it isn't this though this is precious. We rejoice in our sufferings knowing that suffering produces endurance. Endurance produces character. Character produces hope and hope doesn't put us to shame because God's love is

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