Nobody likes to pass for tribulation, to face difficulties and problems, therefore this in the cause, many times, pain and suffering for our soul.
But he is funny, the word of God says that we must in cheering them when passing for tribulatinons! "Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort..."
Therefore it is in the tribulations that God can mold our hearts, perfect and transform our lives.
Nothing it is by chance, for all God it has an intention and nothing it leaves the control of God.
God is who in takes them to the desert (tribulations) and in the guide in it:
"And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not. And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord...
It's allows this to prove our heart, and after being perfected, molded and approved we will receive the crown of the life!
When all return to the normal one, we can see how much we grow in the life with God, in the privacy with it and in the love. We can see everything that God can treat and move in our lives, and we perceive that, although all the suffering and pain, worth one's while to have crossed the desert (tribulations) therefore now our eyes can contemplate the engaged land.
If it will be facing a tribulation, cheer up! Therefore God is molding the character of Jesus Christ in its life, does not look at for the problem, but it looks at for Jesus who is greater that your problem.
"It does not speak for God who you have a great problem, says to the problem that you have a great God!"
Grace, and peace, and love is with all!!
God Bless!!
PS: I'm sorry for the errors of English, still I am learning, but I wait that they have understood the text. =D