It pierces.

2 Corinthians 12:7-9

To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Even if i have to be pierced by rods, torched by flames or crushed by falling ceilings, i will still inch my way forward. I refuse to back down in the face of my troubles, they are but nothing in the eyes of my Lord my God. This is my declaration of faith that nothing can crush me because i serve an awesome God. And as long as i shall live, i will fight with every breath to cling onto the faith.

I may fall. But thats just what i want to do.

I will die to myself everyday.

Brothers and sisters don't back down in the face of adversity.

Thats all i have to say.