With ‘glory in tribulations’ still in my mind, I came to Psalm 119 in my daily reading. The writer of that psalm highlighted the rewards of afflictions or trials. Verses 49-50 say, “Remember the word to Your servant, upon which You have caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction, for Your word has given me life.” 

Verse 67 says, “Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word.” Verse 71 says, “It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I may learn Your statutes.” Verse 75 says, “I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.”:

Verse 92 says, “Unless Your law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction.” Verse 107 says, “I am afflicted very much; revive me, O Lord, according to Your word.” Verse 143 says, “Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, yet Your commandments are my delights.” 

Verse 153 says, “Consider my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget Your law.” Note how God’s integrated word undergirds.