Suffer Successfully

What I dislike about suffering is the lie surrounding it, that life with God gets easier. But it is actually the complete opposite. The believer’s life is hard, filled with incredible challenges, and stressful. Yet, despite that, suffering has its place and is not necessarily an accident, but rather, God’s design.

The key to suffering then is to view it from all angles, like a magician does when doing a trick. To the magician the trick performed is simple, but to the audience, the act is extremely complex. This is because the audience views the performance from a fixed position, while, on the other hand, the magician knows the end from the beginning. To a magician, a handkerchief isn't why the rabbit disappears, instead it’s the second hole, inside the hat, that adds to the suspense.

Likewise, suffering is more than what just meets the eye. Our lives are a confluence of events colliding at just the right time, which, when handled correctly, produces standing ovations, and brings order to what earlier, was chaos. Suffering successfully is the art of addressing our fixed positions and becoming motivated enough to change them with each new hardship !