The Glory of Suffering

Peter encourages Christians to rejoice in their eternal inheritance despite temporary suffering, which refines their faith like gold in a furnace, revealing its genuineness for God's glory. The persecution contemporary Westerners face is against apathy in our comfort, should urge believers to maintain fervent faith through gratitude, sacrifice, spiritual disciplines, and evangelism, as exemplified by Richard Wurmbrand's endurance under persecution in Communist Romania.