Suffering of the Sake of Christ? You’re in Good Company

Christ believed in suffering as the will of God. He found in Scripture that the servant of God would suffer. He made himself familiar with the thought, so that when suffering came, it did not take him by surprise. When it came, his first thought was not how to be delivered from it but how to glorify God in it. This enabled him to bear the greatest injustice quietly. He saw God's hand in it.

—Andrew Murray