Psalm 119:71 says, “It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.” How futile it is to go through a trial and not learn from it. Our trials are divinely equipped with sufficient grace to endure. They also contain wisdom to help us navigate through, so that we will bear much fruit which glorifies the Lord.

Afflicted in the Hebrew means: be bruised with, oppress, humble, be bowed down, be downcast. Luke 4:18 Amplified says that Jesus came to, “…send forth as delivered those who are oppressed (who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity).”

As the Lord was with the three Hebrew men in the fiery furnace, so He is with us every moment of our hard trials. He is Present to teach us more about Himself, so that we can be partakers of His very nature. We need to daily ask the Lord, “What do You want me to learn today from this trial?”