Strength from Struggle
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | We know that suffering produces perseverance and character hope. |
| 0:07.0 | Romans 5, verses 3 through 4. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:15.6 | Strength from Struggle was written by Patricia Raybon and read by Joyce Dinkins. |
| 0:22.9 | Romans Chapter 5, Versus 1 through 5. |
| 0:28.2 | Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, |
| 0:33.0 | we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, |
| 0:37.2 | through whom we have gained access by faith into |
| 0:41.0 | this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, |
| 0:50.3 | but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance. |
| 0:59.0 | Perseverance, character, and character, hope. |
| 1:04.0 | And hope does not put us to shame, |
| 1:07.0 | because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. |
| 1:19.8 | Strength from Struggle, written by Patricia Raybon. |
| 1:26.1 | Jess was getting on in years when he first heard the children's folk tale about the boy and the butterfly. |
| 1:33.3 | Right away, he understood the story's lesson on gaining strength from struggle. |
| 1:39.3 | In the tale, a boy is given a butterfly cocoon but told not to open it. |
| 1:45.0 | But as the cocoon slowly twists and shudders in his hand, the boy can't resist using scissors |
| 1:53.0 | to split it open so the butterfly inside can escape. |
| 1:57.0 | Freed from the struggle, however, the butterfly falls to the ground and dies without ever flying. |
| 2:06.1 | What happened? The boy cries. Jess, after a long life, understood instantly. The boy prevented the |
| 2:14.8 | butterfly from using the muscles needed to grow strong and fly. |
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