Finding Blessings in Our Troubles

Is there any value at all in our hardest struggles? It’s a hard question for those in the very midst of it, who are being overwhelmed by it. But our passage assures us, that yes, there are blessings in our hardest struggles! What unites these two stanzas in the longest chapter of psalms, is the idea that the psalmist’s struggles turned out to be blessings for him. There are at least three ways that your struggles can become blessings for you: