By Movieguide® Staff
Christian rapper Dillon Chase recently spoke about the temporary nature of suffering, reminding us “there’s no expiration date to the glory of God.”
“God’s goodness is forever,” he said while appearing on the “Granger Smith Podcast.” “[A] momentary light affliction, when you compare it to eternal weight of glory…it’s just something that I’m trying to still wrap my mind around and really flesh it out in my life.”
Chase added, “The hard things we go through, there’s an expiration date to it, but there’s no expiration date to the glory of God.”
The artist shared that he was raised by parents with substance abuse issues, and they were in and out of rehab throughout his childhood.
“My suffering was really just paving this hard road that led me straight to Jesus,” Chase said.
He also spoke about the struggles he still goes through in his family life, including his “severely autistic” youngest son.
“That’s a level of suffering that I never wanted to know,” Chase said. “But I come back to God’s word and I’m like suffering is going to change us. Grief is going to change us. But through the Holy Spirit, it’ll only make us long for heaven more, want more of Jesus. And at the end of the day, as hard as it is on earth, when you compare it to eternity with Jesus, it’s light and momentary.”
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Chase has previously spoken about his son’s autism, writing in an Instagram post, “We asked JoJo if he wanted to sing with us for karaoke night and he said, ‘Yes.’ Profound autism can be extremely hard on the family, but he always has a way of melting our heart and showing us the kindness of God.”
In addition to his musical career, Chase is also a missionary. In 2022, he spoke to Rapzilla about his family’s upcoming move to Japan, where he would work at Calvary Chapel Nago.
“I just think, for missionaries, it’s been a hard one for the church to crack, just how to be indigenous and be there,” he explained. “But there are [moments], I see it in the church we’re going to. There are gospel moments happening, it’s just very, very slow, and I think it’s very slow because their culture is so different than American culture.”
Chase continued, “Some missionaries end up getting this god complex where it’s like, ‘I’m going to bring Jesus to Japan’, but it’s like no, He’s already moving and working. Figure out where that’s at, get in sync with it and just put more power and momentum into it. If more missionaries could come to these struggling churches and just strengthen the pastor and strengthen the congregation, and then they are going out to their workspaces, I think we can see things change.”
Chase’s recent comments are a reminder that, no matter what struggles we are facing here on earth, we still have God’s love and the promise of eternity in His kingdom.
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