How Do You in the Worst Cases Stay with Your Faith?

This week's question is in the title (as they will be from here on). And even though the answer is not an easy one, I believe that staying with your faith in the worse cases is easy, because it is in our faith that we find the strength, courage and hope that we need to make it through those difficult times.
There is nothing in Christianity that says following Jesus will be easy, or that following Jesus means that there will be no problems in life, and that we will have everything that we want and desire. There are some Christians who teach that, but that is not how the Scriptures speak. In fact the Scriptures say the opposite. As followers of Jesus we can expect to face trials and troubles because we belong to Jesus and not to the world. And while that does not seem like very good news, it is because there is nothing better than belonging to Jesus. There is nothing anywhere else in the entire universe that can offer to us life and forgiveness, purpose hope and salvation like Jesus. There is nothing that gives us the value and worth that we have like Jesus, and nothing died for us as Jesus did. So even though life can be difficult for being faithful to Jesus, it is truly worth it, and many many Christians have paid the ultimate price because they believed that it was worth it.
Now what about this difficult times when we are not facing persecution, but just going through a very difficult time, maybe it is the loss of a loved one, or a job, or not getting into the school we hoped to, etc. In those times we remember and are reminded of the fact that Jesus is always with us. No matter what happens to us, we are never left alone and he is able to work through those hard times to draw us closer to himself. It is not always fun, but in the end we are stronger in our relationship with our God because of it. And we know that our God is faithful, and that he is true and that he will never allow us to have more than we can handle, although there are certainly those times when we wish that we could not handle as much as we do.
And not only is our God with us, but he gives to us one another as members of the church. This means that we do not have to go through life alone. This means that we don't have to do everything by ourselves, but we have one another to help us make it through those difficult times. Sometimes that means physically helping out, other times it means to uphold one another in prayer. But at any rate this is how we carry each other's burdens.
I look forward to your responses. God bless you this week and always.

Pastor CJ