Some feel that when you become a Christian, everything becomes easy. Everything is happy. Everything is prosperous.
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, that my glory may sing Your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever!
Psalm 30:11-12
That is far from reality!
But the reality extends far further than the persistence of suffering for Christians. It is rooted in the One who sees us through them. Who supersedes them. Who has overcome them! Entrenched is the reality that such struggles are finite.
“Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” Psalm 30:5b
