certainly, but Christ specifically prayed not to have to through with it (or the ordeal in the garden, depending on your interpretation), when He prayed:

>Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

And there is further the question of our own suffering: if we're supposed to get some "good" out of it, why not just wave a wand and give us the good without the bad?

I conclude that God lives in a world with rules like you and me, though they are likely quite different.