sing praises instead of dwelling in self-pity

"Paul and Silas had good reason to bemoan their lot as they lay in jail with their feet fast in the stocks, yet at midnight they 'sang praises to God'. In such straits their hearts were full of praise instead of self-pity. Their interets were lost in glorifying God and His vast plans with mankind. Consumed with this, they could despise present afflictions--as Paul wrote to the Romans: 'I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.'"