God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. His sovereignty is absolute. Everything that happens is uniquely ordained by God. Sovereignty is a weighty thing to ascribe to the nature and character of God. Yet if He were not sovereign, He would not be God. The Bible is clear that God is in control of everything that happens.

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.