God uses problems to INSPECT you.
People are like tea bags – if you want to know what’s inside them, just drop them into hot ever water! Has God tested your faith with a problem What do problems reveal about you? When you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. James 1:2-3
Anything living that is untested does not advance to its next stage of development. just as cells adapt and improve to cope with stress and other harmful things, so does the human spirit improve when tested. A tree that is never bent by the wind grows brittle and is subject to fall at the first breeze. yet the sturdy live oak is the most durable of trees precisely because it has been tested mightily by the wind.
So, when trials and tribulations come our way, sometimes it is merely to the build strength, perseverance and patience we need to become the child of god we are created to be.
Against the wind,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 