Piper on Suffering

"Suffering is a call to trust God, not the life-sustaining props of the world," John Piper writes.

For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 1:8-9