The Purifier
The strength you possess and the power you carry could only be revealed on the victorious side of hardship. Some revelations of who God created you to be could only become recognizable, both to you and to others, through tribulation.
Your love is a pleasure to be experienced and witnessed, but its purity could only be validated through hardship. Could your love remain when circumstances made the flames of its nature difficult to keep burning?
Hardship is not used to break you or your ability to love, but to strengthen you and purify your love.
The testimony is found in how the flames of your love continued to burn in environments that lacked oxygen.
When the only explanation points back to God, that is when you can stand in full assurance, knowing that what He allowed was purposeful, and ultimately for your good and the good of many others.