1. Suffering is universal.

2. Suffering is personal.

3. Suffering is communal.

4. Suffering is beneficial.

Isaiah 53:3 - He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

and as one from whom men hide their faces

he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Romans 8:18 - For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.