A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Yes, and I shall rejoice. For I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,20 as it is my eager expectation and hope that I shall not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. Try as we will, however, it is unlikely that we can get rid of all of our problems.
Trouble is a part of the human condition that is inescapable.
Though we cannot get rid of trouble as an ingredient of life, we do have some choice about our attitude toward our troubles. We have some choice in what we do with troubles. That is the message that comes to us from the passage of scripture that speaks of Paul s experience in prison for telling the truth of the Gospel. The point of the passage has to do with the way we handle trouble. Paul wrote to the Philippian Christians from a jail cell in Rome.