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I think some people can mistake "suffering" and "persecution" for reality, meaning some things are part of life. For instance, I never feel "picked on" or persecuted, I never feel like the underdog and I never claim to be a victim.


I have pain, depression, other health issues and they affect every part of my life. I don't sit and dwell on my sufferings and pain, my afflictions and how they might be "helping" God or that they are His will for my life.

I would offer I think both kinds working as one. Literal fleshly and our minds .The idea as a gift of never being picked on or persecuted seems to be one working according to your seeking, a blessing of God .The physical sufferings can sometimes and does require more aid  ..we can pray in a hope of less sufferings encouraging each other but in the end it is between the work of the Father and Son that the will of God is revealed.

Its the kind of religion God sets his approval on the elders as widows  and the orphans as fatherless. In that way we were all widows and not members as the bride of Christ and were all orphans without a heavenly father. I would offer prayer in regard to your burden in a hope our Father would give strength .

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.