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How Do Spiritually Mature Christians Handle Suffering?
Our Unbiblical Thinking About Suffering Much of our thinking about suffering is unbiblical. We tend to think that spiritual maturity somehow inoculates us against the pain of suffering. We falsely imagine that the more spiritually mature we are, the less emotional pain we will experience when we suffer. The Apostle Paul Would Like to Have a Word with Us There are few human beings who we would consider more spiritually mature than Paul. Yet Paul did not glide through suffering on some super spi