In life, we often come across some unpleasant things, and sometimes they can be very painful and har

Relevant Words of God:

Is the life the Creator arranges for people one of hardship, or is it happy and carefree? (One of hardship.) The majority of people live lives of hardship, with too many difficulties and too much pain. What is the Creator’s purpose in these arrangements, and what is their significance? In one sense, such arrangements are meant to allow people to experience and know God’s sovereignty, arrangements, and authority; in another sense, His primary purpose is to let people experience what life really is, and thereby to realize that man’s destiny is controlled in God’s hand, and is neither decided by any person nor changed in the wake of changes in people’s subjective will. Whatever the Creator does and whatever sort of life or fate He has arranged for people, He makes them reflect on life and on what man’s destiny really is, and, as they reflect on all these things, He makes them come before God. When God expresses the truth and tells people what all this is, He makes people come before Him, accept what God says, experience what God says, understand what the relationship really is between all God says and all the things people experience in their real lives. He lets people verify the practicality, accuracy, and validity of these truths, after which man gains them and acknowledges that he is controlled in the hand of the Creator, and that his destiny is ruled and arranged by God. Once man has understood all this, he will no longer have any impractical plans for his life, and he will not plan to go against the wishes of the Creator nor what He has ordained and arranged; rather, he will have an increasingly accurate assessment and understanding, or a comprehension and plan, of how his life should be lived and the road he should take.

—“Only by Resolving One’s Notions Can One Enter the Right Track of Believing in God (2)” in Records of Christ’s Talks

No one goes their whole life without suffering. For some people, it has to do with family, for some, with work, for some, with marriage, and for some, with physical illness. Everyone suffers. Some say, “Why must people suffer? How great it would be to live our whole lives peacefully and happily. Can’t we not suffer?” No—everyone must suffer. Suffering causes every person to experience the myriad sensations of physical life, whether these sensations be positive, negative, active or passive; suffering gives you different feelings and appreciations, which, for you, are all life experience. If you can seek the truth and seek the will of God from these, then you will draw ever closer to the goals given to you by God. That is one aspect, and it is also in order to make people more experienced. Another aspect is the responsibility that God gives to man. What responsibility? To undergo this suffering. You must bear this suffering. If you can bear it, then this is testimony. Faced with illness, some people are afraid others will find out, they think it is something shameful, when in fact this is nothing to be ashamed of. As a normal person, if, amid illness, you are able to accept the various kinds of suffering that God arranges for you, and are still able to perform your duty normally, are able to complete the commissions that God gives you normally, then this is testimony, and it is something that shames and defeats Satan. And so, any suffering should be accepted and submitted to by every created being and every person. This is how you should understand it, this is in line with the will of God, and it is God’s intention. This is what God arranges for every created being. His putting you in these situations and conditions is equivalent to giving you a responsibility, obligation, and commission, and so you should accept them. Is this not the truth? As long as it comes from God, as long as God makes such a demand of you, then it is the truth. Why is it said to be the truth? This is because if you accept these words as the truth, then when you encounter an issue, these words will be able to solve your notions and rebelliousness, they will allow you smooth passage through this issue, and they will allow you to bear testimony, and not go against the will of God or rebel against God. If you are able to submit to the conditions and situations that God places you in, then you understand the truth, and if you can bear such testimony, then you bring shame upon Satan.

—“Only by Resolving One’s Notions Can One Enter the Right Track of Believing in God (1)” in Records of Christ’s Talks