suffering well

so i had a revelation yesterday. something that i had been holding on to and hoping in for the future was kinda shaken and resulted in me losing hope in it. while that threw me for a loop i was reminded of a sermon from last week on "suffering well" taken from 1 peter 4. one of the main points that i took home from the sermon was that God uses suffering in our lives to show us the areas where we are putting our hope in something more than we are putting our hope in God. interesting. in this particular situation i must confess i was banking on it working out & God has put me in check by shaking my hope in it & putting me in a place where i must trust only Him. while this is totally hard, i love it at the same time. i love that the Lord is pursuing me and loves me too much to let me stay the same. praise be to Him who continues to mold me into who He wants me to be!