He leaned on Jesus

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)

 When you’re going through a rough time, it helps to put your troubles in perspective by considering what some others have gone through.
 Take the apostle Paul, for example. He suffered plenty. “Five times I received forty stripes minus one,” he writes. “Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep… (See 2 Corinthians 11:24–26)
 Having gone through all that, you’d think that of all people he’d have reason to complain or feel that God had maybe forsaken him.
 But to the contrary, he continued to trust God despite his troubles, saying: “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.” (Philippians 4:11–12)
 What was his secret to overcoming the obstacles? He leaned on Jesus, and Jesus gave him strength. —Shannon Shayler [1]

 Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a forgoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver and the soul to sink, but let this be only for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall hereafter be revealed in and for us [in heaven]. I never made a sacrifice. —David Livingstone

[1] Anchor The Cure for Complaining