 If God truly loves us, why doesn't He just make our lives easy and comfortable? I mean, if God is truly a good father and we are His children as Christians, why wouldn't He want to give us a suffering-free, pain-free life? The first thing that we need to recognize is that sin has brought destruction and brokenness into this world and into our lives. And while Jesus worked on the cross, freed us from the power of sin and the penalty of sin, today we still experience the presence of sin. But He does say that He will make a new heavens and new earth where He will bring ultimate restoration to creation. Okay, but why doesn't God just fix everything right now? This is what the Apostle Paul had to say, we rejoice in our sufferings knowing that our sufferings produce endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope. God ordains trials in our lives to mold us into His image, but God doesn't forsake us in our sufferings. Second Corinthians 1-5 says, for as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in His comfort too.