If you have not suffered as much as Christ had when He died for us, then you have not suffered to be able to say Christ would not want you to suffer through any difficulty. Notice too that Christ died for us while we were still in our sin.
We do not bail out of marriages just because our spouse is not acting right. We go to prayer and even fasting to allow God to work in our lives.
I have heard people say, "God wouldn't want me to go through that."
My answer: "If God didn't want you to go through something it would not cross your path."
So often we make choices in our lives that bring severe consequences and then we want to escape them rather than endure and resolve what we created. Resolving our mess ups can only be done correctly if we seek Christ for His solutions.
James 1:2-11 "2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
9 But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;
10 and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.
11 For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away."
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