Who amongst us would ask to be granted the patience of Job? To sit upon a “dunghill” of unimaginable suffering and pain and yet cry out “blessed be the name of the Lord” for though “He slay me, yet will I trust in Him;” is a testimony of patience, love and faith for God that eternally rings loud and clear! Is it not easier though to question our sovereign God when tribulations threaten to crush our souls than to “find strength in helplessness, joy in submission, rest in resignation, heaven in a full surrender to His will”? If God were to ask you to enter into a “furnace of infliction” so that your faith might be proven and your spirit refined like that of pure gold, would you say yes? When you are enjoying “the pleasures of sin for a season” would you receive the rod of His wrath with thanksgiving in your heart? Should you be called to be persecuted for righteousness sake would you be the first to say, though the gates of hell be brought near, I will fear no evil but will rejoice that I am counted worthy to suffer for His name’s sake? The following sermon is going to suggest that it is possible and even spiritually advantageous for Christians to be patient and rejoice in our Lord during the greatest storms of suffering in our lives!