Suffering with a Purpose: How to Turn Failures Into Victories and Pain Into Joy

The greatest test of your faith won't come from routine encounters in your work, family or social life. Nor will it come from extraordinary challenges or temptations. No, your greatest test will be whether you will trust God when you suffer, or whether you will, in the words of Job's wife, curse God and die. In Suffering with a Purpose, Rev. Hubert van Zeller helps you prepare now for all your sufferings in life by enabling you to see them with the eyes of the Spirit.

Van Zeller, the wise author of Holiness for Housewives, maintains that you can understand the mystery of suffering only by means of the Passion of Christ. Through explorations of the Passion narrative, he uncovers a great deal to help you through the dark times, sharpening your vision of life's meaning and showing you how to accept your crosses with love. Above all, van Zeller shows you that suffering has a purpose.

With help from this insightful book, you'll learn how to resist discouragement, see your crosses for what they are, and bear them with perseverance.

In these pages you will learn:

• The astounding significance of Christ's decision to appear among men as a failure
• The importance of being willing to share in the sufferings of others, and to carry their crosses as if they were your own (Do you dare?)
• How you can grow holy and give glory to God even in the crosses that you feel too weak to carry
• Why it is not, in fact, healthier to focus on enjoyment and trying to avoid all suffering
• Compassion: why you must show it toward others - and more importantly, toward yourself
• The part you have to play in the redemption of the world - and what it has to do with your daily sufferings
• Detachment: why you should begin praying now to be freed from your attachment to the things of this world
• And more, to help you gain the strength to meet your sufferings with abiding faith!