Nobody likes to suffer. Let’s face it. Humankind just does not have the stomach for suffering. We have always preferred the proverbial ‘bed of roses’ as our lifestyle of choice. We want comfort without conflict, blessings without burdens, crowns without crosses. But hold onto your hats, saints, because we’re about to take a bumpy ride through some biblical truth that may shake us before it settles us.

Because the reality is this: following Jesus will cost you something. The Christian journey is not a stroll through a garden…it’s a march through a battlefield. And sooner or later, every believer discovers that discipleship comes with crosses we carry and losses we endure.

Yet here’s the good news: God never wastes what we walk through.