Have you ever closed your eyes and imagined something so clearly it felt real? A breakthrough. A healing. A restored relationship. A long-awaited promise finally fulfilled. I’m not talking about daydreaming or wishful thinking. I’m talking about the kind of vision that is anchored in God’s Word - a holy imagination shaped by faith. It’s the kind of vision that keeps you going when you’re deep in the valley, holding onto nothing but a whisper of hope. The Bible calls that hope a gift. One that grows in unlikely soil which is suffering. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. -- Romans 5:3-5 Let that sink in. Scripture doesn’t shy away from suffering. Even the saints didn’t. Paul speaks plainly: suffering is real. Even Jesus, the ...