Since I wrote the previous post I haven't been able to shake some additional thoughts -

What I've read, thus far, in the book The Darkness and the Glory is too deep and heavy to be able to do it justice by simply typing a few quotes. I quoted from Chapter 3 - The Darkness, but I want you to be aware that the quotes I picked are not even minutely close to what has ministered to me. In fact the entire chapter has me chewing, chewing, chewing. You would have to read the chapter in its entirety, and in that matter the entire book, in order to get the context and the entire picture.

Hebrews 12:1-4 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

2 Corinthians 8:9 - For you know the grace of our LORD Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.