From a meditation on Psalm 4:1 by James Ryle at rylisms: Enlarged in Distress
It is a law in the Kingdom of Heaven -- God always enlarges us when we are in distress. Therefore, when God wants to make us larger than we have settled for being, what do you suppose He does? He introduces distress into our comfortable lives, and thereby invites us to ascend to a larger place.
Charles Spurgeon wrote, “I must confess that all the grace I have got out of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows and pains and griefs is altogether incalculable. What do I not owe to the hammer and the anvil, the fire and the file!”
If you are in a tight spot -- God is enlarging you my friend, and the best you can do right now is to thank Him for it.
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