Pain and suffering will be a lot easier to deal with if one knows the purpose and it will accomplish a goal. I understood the Bible talks about character building (James 1) and what Paul said about reliant on God and bring him glory. But when one feel like a mouse in a treadmill, day in and day put with chronic aliment and what comes with aging, it is very frustrating. Seems pain is more breaking me down than building me up.
Being 62, I resign to the fact that my eye ailment (orbital hemangioma) since I was in grade 7 with headache and insomnia that comes, along foot deformity will not go away.
I find comfort in looking up to those who are less fortunate and suffer a lot more than me like the heroic war veterans who are disable in the prime of their life, and people like Joni Eareckson Tada. I still have her 1st book and memorized II Corinthians 4:8-10. God's word is what ultimately help us triumph over adversity. Hope keep us going
Revelation 21 is so beautiful
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”