in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel ashamed for all that you have done when you become a consolation to them.There's an old saying, "having a testimony is great; getting a testimony is terrible." The trials that pain that go along with a testimony are not desirable. They are usually pretty bad situations that one goes through, before discovering/returning to Christ.
However, those trials can also serve a purpose. They can inspire others, whose hearts are open to hear the miracles that God worked. I'll admit that for a long time, I was (and occasionally still am) resentful of those with long strife-filled testimonies, because I never had that and it makes me feel lesser somehow. But I've also seen what good can come from them, the lives saved through others' examples.
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