In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

God never allows pain without a purpose.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.