Suffering and hardship is ordained of God, necessary to the Christian life, a privilege, and measured out for us by a sovereign, loving God. What are some principles by which to manage those hardships, avoid common pitfalls, and help one another as we share in the hardships of this life? Hardships come in the every day life, in health, relationships, finances, distress, sorrow, depression, persecution, jobs, loneliness, natural disasters, spiritual warfare. But our current suffering in this life, some of which are enumerated in verse 35, cannot be compared to the glory we will have at the resurrection with Christ in the new heavens and new earth.