Finding Meaning in Pain

1 PETER 1:6-7

6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

ROMANS 5:3-5

3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

2 CORINTHIANS 4:17

17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

ROMANS 8:18

18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

JOHN 11:35

35 Jesus wept.