Your Greatest Evil: Sin or Suffering?
I hate to suffer. And I hate to see others suffer. I also hate to sin. I know it displeases God, and I yearn to please him. But sometimes we need to choose between sin and suffering. And that’s when we need to decide which we hate more. If suffering is your greatest evil – the thing you most want to avoid – then you will choose sin over suffering. That’s why the apostle Peter admonishes us to steel ourselves to prepare to suffer – “arm yourselves with an attitude of suffer