heart. My friend, you are not reconciled to the will of God until you can rejoice—not for the trials, but because of them. My friend, you are not reconciled to the will of God until you can rejoice—not for the trials, but in them. If I may be technical a moment, the Greek aorist tense used here suggests that the joy is the result of the trial. The idea that there is something joyful in the trials and tragedies of life is not true; trials come to us in order to bring joy into our hearts and lives.