SUFFERING CAN PRODUCE GOOD FRUIT

No one likes to suffer.The very nature of our flesh points to that.Pain is a thing we don't like to confront, if we dont have to.However pain alerts us to areas of our body that may need assistance, to be put back on track.It allows us to know,"I'm not functioning at my best and I need your help.As the body of Christ we often times do not like to suffer because we feel like life should be easy, stress and drama free,but thats not real life.
Life is filled with some disappointments,trials,tests,afflictions,hills,valley expereinces and a host of varied things.But the final reward that is received when all these things have ran their course is well worth it.Jesus went to the cross and paid the price that we could not pay.He did it because the depth of his love for us was that real and that evident by his actions.Peter reminds us in 1 Peter 4:12-16 about what we face and how we must embrace this," ¹² Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. ¹³ But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. ¹⁴ If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. ¹⁵ If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. ¹⁶ However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.
Your relationship with Christ requires some suffering because it came with a price.......his life.Think about it....Do you honestly know of anyone in this present time who would give there life for you, and in giving your life it would enable you to live forever?There is no one else...He understood his purpose and we need to start understanding that we too have a purpose and we can only know it if we have a realtionship with Jesus Christ.

1 Pet 5:10 says But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Suffering can produce good fruit....as long as your know the purpose for your suffering.