When people go through tough times, they are tempted to ask, “Why me?” or “What did I do to deserve this?” These are wrong questions. The correct question is to find out what God has for you at such moments. When you go through stuffs, keep in mind that there are lessons which God wants you to internalize. If you get preoccupied with the inconvenience or the pain, you may miss the lessons. Again, rather than get crushed by unpleasant circumstances, draw inspiration from where God is bringing you into. From our passage today, we can see that when we go through difficult season, God is only preparing us for a wealthy place. The New Living Translation puts our text this way: “You captured us in your net and laid the burden of slavery on our backs. Then you put a leader over us. We went through fire and flood, but you brought us to a place of great abundance.” Psalms‬ 66‬:11‬-12‬ NLT‬‬

…it is important to keep our eyes on the end which invariably will be glorious.

For another perspective, read the text from The Message Bible – “Brought us into hardscrabble country, pushed us to our very limit, Road-tested us inside and out, took us to hell and back; Finally he brought us to this well-watered place”. Something to keep in mind in the going-through phase of life is that God will not abandon us. Also, it is important to keep our eyes on the end which invariably will be glorious. Jesus went through the tough times because of the joy that was set before Him. That should be our approach as well.