“Christ didn’t escape suffering...so why should we? Are we greater or more deserving than Christ? “
No we are not greater than Christ. What does that have to do with this?
Christ died for our sins, so that we would not have to.
It has to do with pain n suffering and being jet packed out of the scene. Ain’t gonna happen.
It is because Christ died and rose that we will be able to endure the coming tribulations, not hide like a bunch of cowards in some rapturous heaven.
Spiritually, yes. However, where He leads, we will follow... to the Cross. St Thomas Aquinas noted that what happens to the head (Christ) will also happen to the body (Church). The Church will suffer for the glory of God as Christ did.