The idea that raw suffering has value is showcased most emphatically in the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. It is a foundational notion in Christianity that “Jesus died for our sins,” that his suffering and death purchased God’s forgiveness for sinners, and that it was a necessary ransom to assuage the otherwise justice demanding, or perhaps even suffering-demanding God. If there is any truth to any of this, then it does indeed suggest that God values suffering in its own right, that there is a divine economy of suffering, with its own exchange rate, amortization, storage facilities, and even loans and credit. What is Creator’s perspective?

Creator does not value or desire suffering but, recognizing that suffering will happen to beings in the physical plane, that is inherent in the nature of existence when your makeup is of a physical nature and vulnerable to many kinds of injury. There are reasons for the existence of living creatures in the physical, and this is primarily to experience the possibility and consequences of negativity under circumstances where you have an attenuation of personal power so that, in response to an affront, you will be somewhat limited in how you might respond to fight back. You will be able to do relatively less damage to others as a physical being than as a light being under similar circumstances, if you were set upon and harmed grievously. The purpose of the enterprise you are a part of is to learn by working through and experiencing how to handle adversity, and regain your balance so things do not get out of control and overstep boundaries to become a source of grievous harm that will leave lasting damage, both to the perpetrator and victim alike. There is great learning in taking on such a challenging existence. All of you have your innings and take turns being in harm's way as a means to learn about it and experience the consequences firsthand, personally. This is because the greatest learning is from life experience, not in a classroom or from reading a learned work describing things like the meaning of life, the operating rules and procedures, and recommended policies for making one's way productively and successfully. One can learn a good deal from what others have experienced, in a sense, blazing a trail before you, but it is human nature to learn best when the lesson is accompanied by emotion and the greater the emotion, the more profound the lesson. There is greater joy in helping to build a castle for one's dwelling than to read about castles in a book and only fantasize about what it might be like to have such a residence and lifestyle. Acquiring the needed means to have creature comforts, financial security, beautiful surroundings, and amiable companionship covers most of the bases of a joyous life in the physical; but that idyllic circumstance, filled with positive attributes, is the minority of lives that are lived. Most people experience shortcomings and sometimes quite profound ones. This makes it difficult to progress because it leads to struggling and suffering which bogs the person down and may keep them stuck for a lifetime if the challenges are simply overwhelming. This incurs a great cost to the soul and the karmic consequences will be substantial as well. Coming back into a new incarnation following such a lifetime will often see the person repeating the experience, and perhaps starting earlier with the goal of prompting them to find a solution in time to save themselves from suffering. If they fail, that increases the buildup of negativity, and this will also be projected into the future and become an ever-greater obstacle to overcome so life gets harder and not easier—that reality is the downside of life experience. Living through a challenge and triumphing is the greatest of possible teachers because it will reward you for finding an effective path and going the distance, doing enough of the right things to come out on top. The rewards will be tremendous for the successful in gaining much hard-won wisdom and knowledge in the bargain. But for those who falter, who make a misstep and get lost by the wayside, lacking the means to help themselves effectively, will find their journey in a new lifetime all the harder and will have to work extra hard to avoid a repeat failure. You are seeing in this description how karma, in effect, metes out a kind of justice more finely attuned in matching levels of responsibility for the creation of negativity, to provide feedback as a life lesson that requires a kind of repayment, and many times the form of that repayment might turn out to be going through a life as someone's victim if one has been a perpetrator in previous lifetimes. That is one way to rebalance negative karma one created, and here again, you see by this description how the Law of Karma can do a much more precise, accurate, and effective leveling of the playing field to effect a kind of restitution by wrongdoing people so they must give back, in some way or another, an equivalent energy, and that act of reconstitution might be a quite painful one. It might be a rich person ends up losing their fortune, and that would be a just and fitting experience to go through for someone who deprived others in a prior life of financial abundance, causing them to live in poverty, and perhaps even die young through a lack of means to have necessary things for survival. The purpose of existence is to learn how to live in divine alignment while facing adversity that might challenge you again and again, but we can tell you that victory will bring you the greatest of rewards from taking on this challenge. So, in that perspective, your suffering becomes a kind of currency giving you something of great value, in learning discernment and wisdom, but this is a benefit that can only be experienced under the right conditions and will not be achieved through arbitrary secondary punishments for wrongdoing as done with the human legal system or vigilantism by individuals wanting revenge.