Tasting Adversity and Drinking Affliction

Regardless of social status or professional ability, adversity will eventually cross everyone’s path. Although difficult to accept, trouble does not have to be the worst thing you’ve experienced. Francis Bacon wrote, "While prosperity is not without many fears, adversity is not without comfort or hope."

The real test of character determines if you become embittered and lose hope. When God's people suffer immensely, he gives them these words of hope, "O my people, you shall weep no more for I shall be gracious to you. Although you are given the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, I your God will be your teacher."

Trouble and adversity will draw you closer to God and increase your dependency on him for help. The chance to re-evaluate the purpose and direction your life has taken becomes a requirement when trouble rattles your status quo. Adversity opens your mind to prayer by realizing life is so fragile you need God’s help to survive. God will help you. 

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The Lord is compassionate, and when you cry to him for help, he will answer you. The Lord will make you go through hard times, but he himself will be there to help you, and you will not have to search for him any more. If you wander off the road to the right or the left, you will hear his voice behind you saying, “Here is the road. Follow it.”

~Isaiah 30:19-21 Good News Bible