He Learned Obedience Through Suffering

I was abused as a child and I spent years angry that God let it happen. But this verse about Jesus learning through suffering started shifting something in me.

Jesus didn't overcome suffering by transcending it or ignoring it. He learned through it. He became who he was supposed to be, partly, through the suffering. That doesn't mean the suffering was good or that God caused it.

But it means the suffering wasn't wasted. I'm learning things through what I endured - about compassion, about resilience, about grace - that I wouldn't have learned otherwise. That doesn't redeem the abuse. But it means God is actually at work in me even through the darkness.