"The Gift of Suffering"

Puritan John Bunyan wrote: “Why then should we think that our innocent lives will exempt us from [our] sufferings, or that troubles shall do us such harm? For verily it is for our present and future good that our God doth send them upon us. I count therefore, that such things are necessary for the health of our souls, as bodily pains and labor are for [the health of] the body.”
(Acts 14:22...through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.)