And I’m here to tell you today, there’s no short route to satisfaction. Even God did not go the short route. He could have avoided the cross and accepted the crown—that was Satan’s suggestion, you remember—but suffering comes before satisfaction always. Perhaps today you are sitting in the shadows of life. Trials confront you. Problems overwhelm you. And if that’s your case right now, then let me encourage your heart and fortify your faith for saying that you’re on the same pathway that God followed, and that it leads at last to light if you walk with Him. “For weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning….”