Purpose in Suffering

Purpose in Suffering

Walking With The Pleasants by Darian & Sandy Pleasant
S1 · E2
Sep 20, 2026
39:09

Episode notes

Can we really follow Christ without suffering?

We often want the Christian life to lead us away from hardship. But Scripture presents a different picture: following Jesus and suffering are not strangers to one another.

In Episode 2 of Walking With the Pleasants, Darian and Sandy talk about the place suffering has in the Christian walk and how God can use difficult seasons as part of the process of shaping us to become more like Christ.

Suffering is painful, and we don't have to pretend otherwise. But as followers of Jesus, our suffering doesn't have to be meaningless. God can use what we walk through to develop us, mature our faith, deepen our dependence on Him, and form Christ in us.

Sometimes we're asking God to remove the very thing He is using to produce something in us.

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