What sustains a believer if they have to suffer in the future?
The believer is sustained by the certainty that present and future suffering is not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed. Even if suffering reaches Paul's extent, it is worth it because that glory is eternal—time without end.
Les explains that believers may shun the world’s pleasures and not enjoy what the world thinks is enjoyable, but it is worth it. No matter what we suffer, even to the extent the Apostle Paul suffered, we can still say it is worth it because of the glory waiting for us. That glory is not just 70 years to compensate for 70, 80, or 90 years down here; it is forever—eternity, ages upon ages, time without end. So if we have to suffer yet some day, that is what has to bear us up: no matter how much we suffer, it will be worth it all because of the glory that is going to be revealed to us.
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What should sustain believers if they have to suffer in the future?
If we have to suffer in the future, what has to bear us up is the assurance that no matter how much we suffer it will be worth it all because of the glory that is going to be revealed to us someday.