God do not take any short cut if achieving something in our character will need suffering. Jesus did not take any shortcut in going to the cross for all of us. How much less is our sacrifice of suffering, if through it, God will polish a facette of our character, making it more lightful. God does not love making us suffering, yet in His wisdom He uses it to get us purer than through other painless approaches. It is worth to suffer, if our character will become through it more alike to the one of Jesus. Suffering is sometimes valuable than Gold .  “The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain Prayer :  Lord help me to suffer well and not dete...