For years, I’ve avidly avoided this kind message of purposeful suffering. I’ve ran from suffering and pursued a life of no pain. But, this last year has had way more pain than I’d ever want to go through. I know a lot of other people are going through comparable or worse things. I pray that God would be so close to you through your own pain. That you would know him and his sufferings on your behalf. There is no pain that you can go through that Christ has not felt for eternity. In Jesus, suffering has purpose and a person to walk through it with. “For to this you…