I believe I understand what you mean, but you should word it more carefully so that hopefully everyone does... understand that is. For the most part none of us have really suffered even simple hardship, much less actual severe persecution. My old pastor remembers going to a camp meeting about 2000 miles away in the 1930's as a teenaged boy riding with a car full of people in an old Hupmobile [without either heat or air conditioning]. After a long uncomfortable ride from Washington State to Kentucky they arrived at the camp meeting where they set up their little pup tents for sleeping during the 10 continuous days of the meeting. There were services three times daily for the entire 10 days held in a large tent with a dirt floor covered with straw. For seating there were long unfinished wooden planks balanced on large concrete bricks. But despite the physical discomfort people came from all over the United States filling the tent to overflowing for every service to be richly blessed by God... And that included only physical discomfort.Unfortunately, I have read right here, "The afflictions I suffer, prove how righteous I am." I'm serious, some people actually believe that bunk.
My pastor would be the first one to say most of the almost 3000 people who attend the camp meetings nowadays for the shortened 5 day duration in a large air-conditioned [AC] building with cushioned seats would not attend if the AC were not working. And this is with no real persecution at all. Also, no one sleeps in a tent anymore. After all, it might rain!