The righteous person has many troubles, but the Lord rescues him from all of them. [Psalm 34:19 (GW)]

He will deliver us from our troubles or carry us through them. Either way, we will be free of them eventually.

God doesn’t promise us a life of mountaintop experiences. There will be valleys to go through, too. Dark valleys. Disorienting valleys. Valleys of depression and despair. What he promises is not a road map that will give us a detour around those valleys, but that he will walk through those valleys with us. When we emerge from those experiences, we look back and realize that is where the growth is. It isn’t on the mountain tops, above the timberline; it’s in the valleys. [From “When You Can’t Come Back” by Dave and Jan Dravecky]

Even if I walk through a very dark valley, I will not be afraid, because you are with me. [Psalm 23:4a (NCV)]