When Christians are afflicted in this life the unbelievers say “Look, there can be no Jesus or God in them because they suffer the same as we do!”, but they say this because they don’t understand why Jesus suffered and died for them, and that we are his disciples who have picked up our crosses and now follow after Him... even unto death. What we should show the world is not a glorious life of ease, but a life in which we might suffer, yet still love them, even as our Lord loves us all.