Much More Precious Than Gold

In the early stages of my depression when I combed the scriptures for hope and relief, I'd marked this passage. I came upon it many months later in my healing process. 

Like a gift, I unwrapped it and was astonished at how every word spoke to me as if from my Father in Heaven Himself:

Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you...


 ...Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: