II Corinthians 7:9-10

"I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us." --II Corinthians 7:9

When we feel at our worst, we're really at our best because it is then that we are most willing and able to turn to God for direction and for strength. It is then we are most willing to sacrifice our own selfish desires in order to follow God, and then when we are most able to feel the all-powerful strength of God. We know at that moment we will always have the strength to endure, and always have a direction in which to go. And so to all of us who are feeling low in the world, let us rejoice, or at least take solace, in the fact that we are primed for spiritual growth. We have a wonderful opportunity at our feet to lay aside the desires of the world, and instead turn to the desires of our God. While we are broken down, let us build ourselves up right -- by not building at all, but by letting God make us into His new creation, so that we might move forward to new wars, and not insist on remaining in the same rut fighting the same old battles.

"For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death." --II Corinthians 7:10