Blake Robert Templeton argues that hardship itself isn't the test. Your response to it is. While the enemy trains you to master the visible world, God trains you through how you handle adversity, shaping your mastery of the invisible, spiritual realm.
The enemy trains men to master the visible. God trains sons to master the invisible. When we're living in the physical and God's trying to help you master the invisible, the enemy's going to try to tempt you with the physical. The test is not the hardship. The hardship is how you handle the test. Someone loses money, someone has a bad circumstance, things bad happen to you. That's a hardship. But the test is not the actual hardship. The test is how you handle the hardship.
