us patience, endurance, sensitivity to others, and most of all a sense of moment by moment trust in the sufficiency of Christ. On this subject James wrote, Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect, lacking in nothing. —James 1:2–4 The apostle Paul understood the value of unrelenting trials in regard to developing dependence on Christ’s strength in