Here's a moving and important and wise question from a mom.

Pastor John, my name is Malia, and I'm a new mother to a baby boy.

I've been thinking about the concept of suffering in relation to my son.

It will be so hard to watch him suffer, but I know that he will face it one day and probably

already does in his own baby way.

My question is simple.

How do I prepare him for and raise him to handle suffering?

What are some practical ways for young parents to teach children that suffering is part of

life and that we can trust God in it?

I would sum up my answer in three steps.

One, teach your son a glorious, all-encompassing, biblical, worldview that puts suffering in

his proper place.

So, teaching.

Number two, discipline him with appropriate firmness and require of him, self-denial.

One is teach.

Number two is discipline and third, model for him, trust and joy in the midst of your

own suffering and sorrow.

So, let me take those one at a time and just give a little bit of fleshing out and some

Bible.

Number one, teach your son a glorious, all-encompassing, biblical, worldview that has suffering in his

proper place.

What I think of what that worldview would include, let me just give six components, one,

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