suffering?

Do you seek to avoid suffering? My word promises that all who seek to follow me will encounter persecution, so you may not be able to avoid it. No one seeks it out, but cherishes and nourishes his own flesh. The question is what lengths you are willing to go to avoid suffering. If this is a big priority for you then you will find you are tormented by smaller and smaller things. Then the minor annoyances of life will take on even greater proportions and you will suffer more rather than less. You can reverse this trend if following me is your top priority. Then you will be able to overlook ever greater offenses until you consider them to be light afflictions not worthy to be compared to the glory to come.