Hardship does not shape our character, it reveals it. If we find ourselves becoming angry at difficulty in our lives then perhaps God has more work to do in us.
Crankiness is not justified merely because we are going through trials. For the born again believer a trial can be the greatest witness to the unsaved than anything else. If they see us going through with joy, enduring and loving Christ in spite of the misery, they will wonder what we have that makes us so kind and loving even through bad things.
Those who are cranky because they have been challenged are revealing something about their heart. That anger does not come up when there is no anger in the heart. If anger is coming out then it is leaking out of a heart full of it.
Matthew 12:34
"34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."
Luke 6:45
"The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks."
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