Trials, temptations, & joy. Consider it joy when we go through hard times? Its easy to say hard to do. As soon as we come accross the smallest setbacks in life some of us tend to act like its the end of the world. Sometimes we let these things break us completely. I think that once you start looking at your smallest blessings to the same extreme as your smallest problem then we feel so much more blessed and its easier to look at these problems and still have that TRUE joy. I also think you have to remember that even before we were saved we went through problems.. and we still got to where we are with are strength now. The farther along in our walk with Christ we get, the older we get, and the more fulfulled and educated in Him we are. That means we are lacking less than we were before. See where I'm going with this?
The trials give us the strength to fight the devil with harder battles we might have later on with less work. Its just we have to believe this whole-heartedly and speak it til we live it and believe it.

James 1:1-4