He has no pleasure in trouble for its own sake. It is because of what it accomplishes. We may not like it, and we may not always see what it does for us, but it seems impossible to shut our eyes to the need for it, and to the beauty of the results that spring from it where it is effectual. We have all heard of the people born with silver spoons in their mouths. We all know that prosperity does not conduce to wisdom.
Wisdom is an affair of mental discernment in the highest directions.
Men who are enjoying themselves don't care to ask what God made them for. They do not care to take into account what may please God. The idea of man living not for himself is distasteful to them. Duty, obedience, sympathy, worship, affection and reverential subordination to God as a continual attitude, are all outside their purview and foreign to their inclinations. Obviously, by trouble.