Romans 5:3-4, Out of Them All the Lord Delivered Me
When God sends us affliction, He also supplies us His grace to bear under it. The test is to keep faith and trust God. To keep praying and leaning upon His promises. It is a time where virtue in the believer’s life is formed. The strength to endure and not give up comes from God. He supplies the strength. We tarry with Him. Deliverance will surely come! And we learn that we are not alone in our affliction. God is with us.
There is a spiritual strength that subsist in affliction. A strength that comes from within. This word “experience” means “to be approved”. When we keep walking with God, He sees us through that affliction. We can understand in our heart that God is working in and through us. And we experience victory with Christ. Victory to overcome sin, to say “no” to temptation, to live a holy life, to keep faith before God and man. And experience gives us hope, a boldness to keep trusting God and experiencing His grace in our lives.