"Yet we know from experience that life, despite our confidence in our salvation, is not easy. Jesus knew that life is hard (they tried to throw Him off a cliff, they mocked Him, and they eventually brutally executed Him), and He told us just that, saying that in this world, we will have trouble and tribulation (John 16:33). Have we ever gotten upset with God because things are tough, and they don’t seem to be getting any easier? Yet Christ has told us it would be this way. Why do we go on expecting things to be easy?
Life is tough, no doubt about it. Jesus never meant it to be easy. He said in this world we will have trouble. The promise, however, is that He has overcome this world. When we remember our calling and our inheritance in...