There is a benefit to our own personal suffering, it can make us holy. There are only two approaches in life, to allow our pain to embitter and destroy us or allow it to build character and strengthen us. With God's help we can choose the latter.
St. Paul describes this in the Readings today when he speaks of the salvation of our souls through the sufferings of Christ. We are called to live obediently, dying to our own desires as Christ did. When we no longer live for what we want but rather for what God wants for us, then we are on the road to salvation.
What does God want for us? To live our lives according to the Commandments and the Gospel.
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