I just finished reading the diary of a Jewish professor who survived Germany in WW2. The account is of the daily grind of persecution, beatings, fear and humiliation. Death was constantly at the door even for some time after the allied victory.
In this book, there is the absence of any relationship with God or even an interest as to where such evil as Nazism came from on a biblical level. It was only secular reasoning that interested him during this time. There was no mention of Jesus, sin or the salvation of God.
If human effort can get an individual through such horror, how much more can a personal relationship with God. Consider the Apostle Paul:
2 Corinthians 4:9
persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
2 Corinthians 11:24
Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.
2 Timothy 2:9
for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned.
How do your troubles stack up with his? If God strengthened him through trials and trouble, can He get you through?
Think about it.
Gary