What is it about patience that makes us complete and lacking in nothing? Is it because we learn to trust God? Is it because we learn not to trust in ourselves? Is it because trials bring out the worst in us so that our failures and shortcomings are made obvious which hopefully produces repentance and a change? Is it because trials make us long for heaven and remind us that this world is not our home?
Perhaps it is all of these and more. However one thing becomes painfully apparent during trials. We need divine wisdom. James tells us when we become aware of that need, we are to ask God for wisdom and he will give it to us (James 1:1-3).
