Jeremiah Tipton argues that hardship is essential for spiritual growth. Fear and confusion give way to endurance, which strengthens faith and creates a cycle where future challenges feel smaller. God uses trials to process and fortify believers into a steadier, more confident relationship with the divine.
You cannot mature without trials. You cannot learn endurance without resistance. So the pain of what you're going through is actually perfecting your nature, perfecting your character, and it's teaching you to live by faith. Your faith will become stronger. Here's what actually happens. Let's say you have a trial come your way and that trial seems really big and you're wondering, how on earth am I ever going to get out of this? How on earth does this actually end well for me? You can't see the end as being positive. Well, the way you respond to that trial at first may be fear, confusion, and you might feel as though this is some insurmountable thing that you'll never be able to overcome. But then you do overcome it. You do endure. You do get past it. You do climb that mountain. And then on the other side of that trial, you come out purified and your faith is stronger. So the next time that a trial comes, maybe it's about the same size of a trial, maybe it's similar to the last thing you went through. And now when it comes along, there's this confidence and you say, I've been here before, I can do this. And as your faith grows, your problems begin to shrink. As your faith grows, your confidence in God, even in the middle of trials, begins to stabilize. You're no longer inconsistent. You're no longer confused or wrapped up in yourself, all tense with emotion. And now because of what you've gone through, Because of how God processed you, your faith has been strengthened. I'm telling you, He's strengthening your faith.
