Suffering... Who knows it?

I've been stuck on this topic of suffering since last May. I've talked to friends and mentors about this, and yet no one seems to fully grasp the concept of suffering in our lives. One thing I know is that we are called to it as Christians and we must choose it as Christ chose it, but I still don't know what that looks like in my life.

In the past week alone, Caleb Bislow and Kyle Lantz both put Piper videos about suffering on their blogs and I had a lengthy conversation about it with another friend. Last night I listened to a Piper sermon about how we can arm ourselves to suffer and it got me fired up enough to actually do something about it. So I'm going to dive into a massive* study on what the Bible has to say about suffering. If anyone has anything they can add or if you just want to join with me in this, I would be more than happy to accept help or other views/thoughts on the subject.

*Relative to Eric Gingerich's normal Biblical topical studies