Falling A Prey To Self-Pity Without Faith. Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

Why would God let us suffer
and go through so much pain?

Maybe our reasoning is backward.
We think the faithful
don't deserve to suffer,
but from God's perspective,
suffering is what produces
faithful believers.

If we all had lives of ease
without opposition,
trials, or pain, we'd never
really know God,
because we'd never need Him.

If we all had lives of ease
we'd never really know God.

Pain, persecution, and adversity,
can be God's greatest means
of building faith.

Without faith, we would fall
a prey to Self-pity.