The Lord is honest about the life into which he has called his children, it is riddled with trials.  The trials of our lives are the crucibles in which we are refined and molded for our good and for God’s glory.  Peter reminds us that there is something beyond our current struggles and suffering, that there is a greater reality than what we can see and experience. God has something glorious in store for us but first, it is necessary that we are sanctified.  We endure when we keep our eyes on the prize.