It is his job to keep you from your Heavenly prize. Remember that Jesus is with you and will give you all the help that you need to vanquish the devil. He advised people to pray the words, 'Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven' in every circumstance of life. Love the cross. He taught that Christians must humbly accept suffering because it is through suffering that we come to be most like Jesus.
Religion is a hospital for spiritually sick people who want to be healed.
To be healed they submit themselves to suffering, namely, to bloodletting, to the lance, to the razor, to the probe, to the scalpel, to the fire and to all the bitterness of medicine. In order to be spiritually cured, we have to submit to all the tortures of the Divine Physician. Her son, seated on a low stool, sees her work, but in reverse. Then the mother lowers the embroidery hoop and shows the good part of the work. Each color is in place and the various threads form a harmonious design.