I have never heard anyone come to me and say, "Bro. Mickey, I am down today and it's the best day of my life." Nor have I heard, "I have been insulted and I am happy about it." Usually I act in the opposite way.

If someone makes fun of me I get my feelings hurt.
If someone gets angry at me, I tend to want to get angry right back.
If someone throws an insult my way, I want to throw one back and try to make it worse.

But Paul says in 1st Corinthians 12:10
"Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults (mistreatment), with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties for Christs' sake..."

How can someone be happy when all of this negative is happening in his life. The end of the verse tells me.

"...for when I am weak, then I am strong."

When I get to the end of my rope, that is when God picks up the rope for me. When I have gone as far as I can go, then my Heavenly Father picks me up and carries me where He wants me to be. When I am weak - He makes me strong.

Unlike the world, God can use a weak man.

"Lord, help me to know today that when I may feel down you can pick me up. When I feel that all the world is against me, you are for me. Make me stronger in areas in which I am weak but help me to understand for that to happen I may have to go through some things that will test my faith in you. Help me to pass the test!"