What are you made of?

This morning I read, "If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength!" (Prov 24:10 NIV)

We often think of our struggles, trials, or troubles as being character builders. How often has someone attempted to console me by saying, "God is building character in your life." But that is not what the writer is saying in this verse. Could it be that the writer has discovered that troubles reveal what we have already learned? Could it be possible that our trial is an opportunity to display what we are already made of?

Alicia Chole in her book, Anonymous, discusses this very thought.