The Necessity of Trouble and Suffering 2 Thessalonians 1:1–4 How can you be thankful for trouble and suffering? A faith that cannot be cannot be trusted. An life leads to a faith. A growing faith trusts Christ to take care of life life Future life What can suffering do? Can make us When mixed with grace and faith will point us and What should I remember? You have to God never suffering 2 Corinthians 4:15–18 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.