The Truths of Suffering

In today's modern world, we are all taught that suffering is bad and that you should do as much as you can to avoid suffering at all. You may be told to gave 'fun' all the time, do what makes you 'feel good', and that it is unfortunate if you ever have to suffer!

I say to you that there are greater Truths behind suffering than what meets the eye. Some of the people who live their lives close to God suffered immensely. If you think about it, why would they want to live a life of pain? They all seemed to want that life too. What could ever compel them to want that? I sometimes follow with the thought that they must have some psychological dysfunction to be wanting such morbid things!

Consider the fact for a moment that suffering might have value to it. If you suffer a lot now, you get a lot more reward later. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger? If that's True, then suffering should be desired at some level. If you wanted to be closer to God, closer to Him, you have to defy what is considered by many, 'common sense'.

For, life is full of pain, suffering, doubt and worry. We will make mistakes, we will fall. We will hurt others, whether we want to or not. We will not know any better, and we will be tempted to do what is wrong for us, and we will give in. We will die. Its about time that you and I come to the conclusion that this is inevitable. So instead of letting this get us down, we must these as Truths. They can't be changed or denied -- everyone goes through them -- they are real Truths.

I say, learn to embrace these sufferings as part of living a Life of Truth. Seek out minor ones and train yourself to feel pain so that way when the real trials come, you have already prepared yourself. Give up your suffering to God and then one day, you'll die and then you will be with Him forever, where no suffering will ever take place.