Great men are born out of hardship. If you read enough biographies you will get to thinking that there can’t be a great man except he who suffers. God knows that you can’t develop strong men in easy places. The man who has never had his faith tested doesn’t know whether he has faith. God wants to make you and me into men like Christ and he allows us to stay in hard places to make us better. I have lived long enough to thank God for my trials and my troubles. What I thought at one time was the benediction to my ministry turned out to be invocation. What seemed to me to be the worst thing that could happen to me has turned out to be the best thing.
