Sharing in Christ's Suffering and His Comfort

Paul contends that what Christ experienced in His suffering spills over, now, into His people. What Christ experienced in His comfort spills over, now, into His people. We suffer and we're comforted because we are united with Christ, such that His life of suffering and comfort is completed in us.

--Thabiti Anyabwile, The Life of God in the Soul of the Church: The Root and Fruit of Spiritual Fellowship (Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2012), 131.