It is interesting that agronomists have discovered that the strongest plants are not those that grow in an ideal environment. Neither the trees that are in places that meet the optimal conditions to develop.
The most robust trees and plants are those that grow in desert, arid and hostile places. They are the ones who have to push their roots towards the earth in search of groundwater, thus creating much stronger foundations. Or they have to extend their trunk upwards, looking for the oxygen they lack. Others should expand their branches to cause greater absorption of the water that comes with the rain. Such is the Christian. The hostile environments, the adverse circumstances and the setbacks of life will make it stronger and stronger. It is like the Latin American slang saying: "What does not kill, fatten".
Even the human body works under this principle. When subjected to great pressure due to physical exercises, he suffers temporary discomfort, however, the effort produces better and stronger muscles.
It is astonishing to observe how in every tribulation the enemy of our souls seems to cease to try to convince us that through it we will be destroyed, when in fact we are being strengthened. And after all testing will prove once again in our lives that greater is the one who is in us than he who is in the world (1 John 4: 4).
By P.R.G
