Pro 24:10 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Trying times are times of struggle or unhappiness. If you describe something of someone as trying, you mean that they are difficult to deal with and they make you feel impatient or annoyed. ( Collins Dictionary). The synonyms for trying times are adversity, tribulations, hardships, misery, misfortunes etc.
Life is full of things that are beyond our control. All human beings go through challenging moments during their lives. God, in his wisdom has availed the coping grace to enable us climb every wall. The darkest hours precedes great blessings . Martin Luther puts it this way, ” we must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
It is important to learn to deal with what we are able and leave the rest to God. During the trying times , you have to keep on trying. We have to develop spiritual muscles so that we may able to gracefully go through our darkest hour. ” Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today” ( Thich Nnat Hanh)
Further readings:
Jer 51:6
1 Co 10:13
Heb 12:3
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