How we Experience

...he doesn't promise to give us experiences of super-abounding joy and serenity such that for a moment the stress and sadness seem to melt away. That can happen, and we should be endlessly grateful for such "touches" of God's love. But he doesn't promise them, and only he knows what we need and when. Remember John Newton's maxim: "Everything is needful that he sends; nothing can be needful that he withholds."

~ Gospel Coalition

Just hungry a MOMENT ago...

"The world currently produces enough food for everyone on the planet to have at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day." ~ Gospel Coalition

So, why are there people going hungry? That is definitely a problem that can be tackled. What are we doing with resources these days that makes much go to waste and cause others to hurt? 

Enduring: What we actually do

"When we endure suffering with all the patience we can muster, we treat God as God, and that glorifies him, regardless of any other results we can discern."

~ Gospel Coalition

Both

"No other religion says that God is both a sovereign and a suffering God. This is the theological foundation for why Christians can be so realistic and yet so hopeful about suffering at the same time."

~ Gospel Coalition

Hopeful Distinction

"The Bible is terribly matter-of-fact about the reality that the world is filled with misery. Yet it offers not merely a spiritual afterlife but the hope of a renewed creation, the resurrection, and a material world wiped clean of decay and suffering and death. No other religion promises such a thing."

~ Gospel Coalition

Its Validity

...attestations for the story of Jesus (eyewitness or not) are without equal. Examine the sources we have for other ancient historical events and people and you will find that they have nowhere near the number of documented writings discussing the central claims.

...when it comes to the claims about Christ, we are talking about 27 documents in the New Testament alone. And all of these come within 60 to 70 years after the events.

~ Gospel Coalition

The Bible proving itself?

The only way to say the Bible can't prove the Bible is to presume that Scripture has a single authorial source.

~ Gospel Coalition