![]() ![]() And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. Paul writes: ‘We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. The saying goes: ‘The same sunshine that melts the butter hardens the clay.’ God wants our struggles to strengthen us. We can control whether an experience makes us stronger or weaker, increases our faith or our fear, makes us a better person or a bitter person. We can’t control all our circumstances, but we can control how we respond to them. We do not know what is going to occur tomorrow or even today. In a classic book, he wrote, ‘The last of human freedoms is the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.’ The guards could not take from Frankl his freedom to choose his attitude. But he had one thing no one could take from him. ![]() They took his wife, his family, and his clothes. ![]() In World War II, Viktor Frankl was sentenced to a Nazi concentration camp. ‘We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials.’ Romans 5:3 NLT ![]()
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