John 11:6

Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was 2 more days. Jesus refrained from going because of his divine love. It was his love alone that kept him from rushing to the grieving friends. Anything less than infinite love would have. Only the power of divine love could have held back the spontaneity of the saviors tender heartedness until the work had been finished. Who can estimate the great debt we owe to suffering and pain? If not for them, we would have little capacity for many of the great virtues of the life of the believer. Where would our faith be if it not for the trials that have tested it. Or patience...without anything to endure or experience without tribulations to develop it?