Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial (suffering) when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. (Peter.

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Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial (suffering) when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. (Peter 4 v12)

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.(1 Peter 4 v13)

Phil 3:10 that I may know the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings… 2 Cor 8:2 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy overflowed …

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Rom 5:3-4 we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

Suffering can make us bitter people or better people.

We are enlarged in the waiting.

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We can know the Comfort of the Father, and give the comfort of the Father 2 Cor 1:3-5 the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

We enter into the sufferings of God