Your present pain proves you did it.” It was at this moment God spoke a transforming truth into my life: The goal of life is not the absence of pain. It’s the presence of glory. God’s glory. And sometimes that comes most vividly with pain. Not only have I learned that pain doesn’t kill; I have learned that I will never lose or be betrayed by the one thing with absolute power to destroy me—God Himself. For nothing shall “separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:39).