Faith is aligning our heart’s belief with God’s will and ways. That is the work of righteousness. Isaiah 32:17 says, “The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.”

The work of righteousness in our trials looks like Romans 5:3 Amplified. It says, “Moreover (let us also be full of joy now!) let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.” Experiential knowledge comes from tried faith ~ purified in previous fiery trials.

Every trial is strategically designed for our faith’s purification. The intensity of the heat drives the hidden dross to the surface. Dross: hidden fiery dart lies, unforgiveness, resentments, offenses, negative ruts that our mind gets trapped in, etc. Dross is fallow ground in the soil of our lives. It cannot bear fruit for His glory.