Suffering can it be comforting?

For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

2 Cor 1:5-6 (ESV)

  1). Affliction is for comfort of others and salvation: Their salvation.

The suffering a believer endures can be a testimony to non-believers if one endures it with patience and remembering Jesus and His sufferings for their own sins.

A.    The suffering in a believer is a character building by God making one’s character more holy. God is healing the mind of sin.

 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 5:3-6 (ESV).

Suffering is not in itself evil, but a necessary tool by God to show His mercy towards us and lead us always to Jesus.