Suffering . . . not the most exciting of topics for the church.
I have learned more in my moments of suffering than I have ever learned during all the wondrous blessings of life. Don't get me wrong. I am glad for the good and would choose not to repeat the bad, but suffering has its benefits (humility, dependence, perspective, shared experience, reliance, testing of faith, etc.)
Perhaps we have this bragging thing all wrong. Maybe we should brag about what God has done in our lives and not what we have done for God. Paul seems to shout that the only thing he has to brag about is the fact that God got him through some tough times.
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