Troubles test our faith. Not only do they test it, but also exercise it, helping it to grow. We know how exercise works with the physical body. As we exercise, the resistance of the weight causes the muscles to stretch to their limits. They get torn down, and in the process of their recovery, their size and strength increases. The next time, they are able to easily withstand that same resistance, and even more, as the process is practiced over and over again. That is how muscle size and physical strength are increased. If the body is receiving a proper diet, with exercise, it will grow stronger.
                                    
These real-life trials, and real-life tribulations, have the potential to cause significant trauma in our lives.  God has placed a measure of faith in each of us, enough to enable us to reach out in response to God’s call. God has given us what we need to get right. If we utilize the measure of faith God has placed with-in, it will be like a seed that begins to grow. And as we feed it with God’s truth, and exercise it with life’s trials, it will grow.