Compare suffering to making a cake.

I must compare suffering to making a cake. No one sits down, gets out a box of baking powder, eats a big spoonful, and says, "hmm, that's good" and you dont do that with a spoonful of baking powder of shortening. By themselves those things are distasteful and they turn your stomach. But God takes all of those ingredients, stirs them up, and puts them in His own oven. We get impatient and want to open the oven, thinking, surely the cake must be done by now. But not yet, no not yet. What really matters is that the cake is baking and so, God k nows just how long to let the cake bake. All the ingredients of pain and suffering work together for my good for I love God. Romans 8:28.

Ya know, The apostle paul knew something about suffering. He was beaten, whipped, stoned, and shipwrecked. He lived in danger from foes and frirends alike. He went without sleep, food and water.