BY RICHARD S NYDERFor the Bulletin When I was in basic training in the Army, we were put through a strenuous program of exercising, running, overcoming difficult obstacles, keeping long hours of strenuous activity, and just generally enduring suffering. While we might complain about the ordeal, we really had to admit that the training was good for us. As one Green Beret officer put it, “if you suffer much in training, you bleed little in combat.”Paul has a similar statement at Romans 8:18: “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory ...