We tend to approach suffering as something to be avoided at all costs. At the first sign of pain, we either flee or pray desperately for relief, hoping for deliverance. Sometimes, the healing comes—but often, it doesn’t. Even when the answers to our pleas seem distant, God is at work, using our suffering to draw us to a deeper place where power is found in surrender and peace blooms in the soil of brokenness.
Read the rest of Jeff King’s article on Christianity.com here.