Jeremiah - Suffering and Faithfulness

For anyone who has ever imagined that suffering only happens to the
godless - they simply haven't read the Bible.
Find me one character, one person in the Bible who did not suffer for
being righteous. Every major player did. Today I was caught up in
Jeremiah - known as the weeping prophet. Called at a young age, God
equipped him to serve him faithfully as a prophet. Jeremiah obeyed -
and Jeremiah suffered enormously. He was taken through such agonizing
stress - enduring animosity and hatred from every corner till God was
quite litterally all he had left.
No surprise then that I would close that reading with a prayer only to
be interupted by a phone call and a report of suffering on the other
end of the line. Not suffering from sickness, or even from sin. But
Suffering for doing the right thing. God is indeed awe-inspiring. He
brought me where I needed to be - in order to minister to that caller
and to pray fervently for God's grace to sustain them even as they
suffered. May it be that God will always do exactly that - in fact I
beleive that God always prepares one of his servants to minister and
strengthen those that are hurting. It just happened by his Mercy and
Grace to be my turn today.