Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer.
Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life.  Rev. 2:10

 Jesus never says that being faithful to him we will avoid troubles, 
suffering and persecution.
Rather, we must be faithful to him IN our sufferings.
Only then will our faith prove to be genuine.
We remain faithful by keeping our eyes on Christ and on what he promises us now and in the future.
Lord, I pray, “make me UNWAVERING, even at the face of death. 
Let me not be broken by the blood of sin”.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit.  Psalm 34:18
“I have come not to call the righteous
But sinners to repentance.”  Luke 5:32

“Broken” symbolizes the SIN Jesus bore from and for all of us.

At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”
which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Mark 15:33,34

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us,
so that in him we might become the righteousness of God”  2 Cor. 5:21

 Olivia Cameo Lewis, 1999