STOP AND THINK In suffering, God is not getting back at you; He is getting you back to Himself. (Bob Kellerman, psychologist and author)
People often think that sickness and suffering are punishments from God. More often, however, they are the result of viruses, injuries, hereditary anomalies, and the inevitable spread of disease. If God allows you to suffer, perhaps He is merely giving you time to think more seriously about life and, particularly, your relationship with Him.
But those who suffer [God] delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction. (Job 36:15)