Ecclesiastes 1:18 ” For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.”

Our wisdom can only at times add to the frustration of living here in a very broken world. We’d love to, but we cannot escape pain, suffering, and loss. In I Peter 2:19, we read that it’s commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering. So then as a Believer, our attitude towards pain, suffering and loss shouldn’t be that we want it all to be prevented, but rather we need to ask God to protect us…that we would remain what He has created us to be despite what we’re going through. Or as we see in John 12:27-28, Jesus praying to His Father not to save Him from the hour, but out of the hour.