When we are young in Christ, God holds us close to Him, and tends to us like a mother does her child, but as we age in faith we grow spiritually, and our lessons become more difficult, while likewise, the price we pay to learn them increases. So it is that we suffer from time to time, but there is one way that we can reduce the intensity of our trials, and be led gently by the Lord… come to Him with new lambs in Christ. Like a shepherd watches closely over his ewes, so does God watches over us when we come to Him with our young in Jesus.