Deliverance vs. Loss

We look for perilous times in our near future, not because we are pessimists but because the Word of God has forewarned us and because the present course of things makes it evident. The saints may lose all the same things the world loses, but there is a vast difference: for the world, it is a loss of everything; for the saints, it is a deliverance from all that distracted us from resting fully on the Lord himself.

(Dick York, Missionary and founder of Shield of Faith Mission International, SFMI Prayer/News Update, Sept.-Oct. 2008)