AI OVERVIEW: Real suffering matters to God and should not be minimized with a quick 'you’ll be fine'—Romans 8:18 states that the present suffering cannot compare to the coming glory. Three observations guide endurance: recognize you are suffering now; do not compare your pain with others, but compare this age to the endless age to come; and imagine the Savior who suffered, as in the Mary, Martha, and Lazarus moment when Jesus wept with them. Jesus absorbed God's wrath for us on the cross, so that our suffering would be ended; in the new heaven and earth there will be no sickness or hate, and the scars of His suffering will remain as signs of the freedom He earned, inviting anyone to receive forgiveness and a right relationship with God.
