Our Father's Will Is That We Suffer??????

Therefore, those who are ill-treated and suffer in accordance with God's will must do right and commit their souls [in charge as a deposit] to the One Who created [them] and will never fail [them]. 1 Peter 4:19

I know how that sounds, but the glorious Truth is that the will of our Father is that we are to suffer. The question is why?

Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and [d]tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5

We suffer because troubles cause us to be mature. When we suffer we look to our Father in very powerful ways and He grows stronger within us. This allows us to have confidence that we are one with Him and it allows the world to know that He is in us. Trials and tribulations will never end for us while we are in these bodies. But the Truth is that each trial makes our Father stronger within us. So we are constantly growing stronger in the power of His might. So rejoice, things are getting better for us as they get worse for us.

I thank God that the more He uses me the more I see this Truth. Our Father is causing me to do more for Him than He ever has before and the trials are still right here. He is causing me to have more and more peace though in the trials. I am far better than I was five years ago and amen if Jesus isn’t here in five more years and I still am, our Father will make me even stronger. Trials aren’t going to stop. We cannot pray them away, tithe them away, or serve them away. Actually the more our Father has us do these things the greater the trials will become, because the greater He will become to us.