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Suffering – The School of Life

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Suffering is a wonderful school through which God talks to the believer in a wonderful language. Suffering is, for the life of the believer, a cloud from which in the end drops of a blessed rain will fall.

In the fire or suffering and temptation our faith becomes stronger. The school of wilderness, the school of suffering are a wonderful school for all the chosen of God. The Israelites had to pass through wilderness in order to reach the promised Canaan. Why? Because this wilderness was for them a wonderful school, where they learned to know the true God. In the fire of suffering and of shortcomings their connection with God became stronger.

Suffering is a wonderful school through which God talks to the believer in a wonderful language. Suffering is, for the life of the believer, a cloud from which in the end drops of a blessed rain will fall. The wilderness of the believer’s suffering is filled with heavenly manna and water from the rock.

(Translation from Father Iosif Trifa, Citiri și tâlcuiri din Biblie, Editura Oastea Domnului, Sibiu, 2010, p. 105)