Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes (ed. Oliver-Nelson Books, 1990) - ISBN: 9780840791078