We can’t demonstrate God’s good and perfect will for our life by staying in the same old rut. We must be transformed and renewed. That’s why we must often pass through adversity on our way to becoming what God wants us to be. Adversity changes us. Adversity is the crucible that melts down the old us. Adversity is the hammer that shapes the new us.
 
- Os Hillman, The Upside of Adversity