John 18: 8 “I told you that I am he,” Jesus said. “And since I am the one you want, let these others go.” 9 He did this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.”

10 Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest’s slave. 11 But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering the Father has given me?”

​Jesus did not lose a single one of those the Father had given him.. how often are we worried about being 'lost' by Jesus? that he won't protect us.. care for us... sadly we often think like that.. but God has not failed us regardless of what we have gone through so we are still being protected.. possibly not like we want to be.. but definitely protected.. 

Jesus asks Peter.. shouldn't he drink from the cup of suffering that God had given him.. how often do we try to avoid any type of suffering we can.. we try to determine that everything that happened that don't want or didn't like came from the enemy.. well I am thinking much of it came from the Father.. to change us.. to make us better people... to take focus off ourselves and onto helping someone else... if things are always good all we see is self... we don't think about someone else's need. but if we suffer.. then we are more compassionate for someone else's pain and more willing to help them.. to suffer with them.. 

I admit.. I hate to suffer.. but sometimes it will make you better if you refuse to be bitter.. 

thank you Father for changing me.. even when you use suffering to get me there.. ​