The Joy of Sharing Christ's Sufferings

How could we be like Christ if we do not go through any suffering when his life and death were so marked by suffering? The thing is everyone suffers. But for the Christian it's all changed because for us it's not pointless. Born again into Christ's new humanity we've been taken out of that terrible but simple downward slide into death. When you're young and healthy that's the best it's ever going to be. Then old age and sickness and death and then they hope against hope. For us believers united to Christ we've been brought into Christ's life so we share his direction of travel now, not Adam's direction of travel.