Troublesome Times sounds like a religious term or what I like to call christianeese. Christianeese is religious jargon that you only hear Christians speak. It is like their own native language. With that being said, all of us go through times of trouble. You know what I am talking about. A certain time that you go through where you feel like you have nothing more to give. You know that God is there, but yet He remains silent making you feel like He is not there. I think that is where I am, yet He spoke very loudly this morning. Listen to these verses in Psalm 71:20-21:

20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
21 You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

Notice what the Psalmist said, "You who made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again." We don't often think or even like to think that God is the one who has made us see many troubles. It is not to say that He causes all bad or troublesome things to happen, but certainly He is a sovereign God who oversees all. The same God who made me see troubles and calamities is the same God that will revive me, bring me from the depths, increase my greatness and comforts me. He is the same God that chose to spoke to me this morning in the midst of troublesome times.

If you are in the middle of some troublesome times, stop and thank God for allowing you to see these troubles and for when He will revive you and comfort you.