God tests you in order that He might produce something in your life and that’s patience. Now how does God produce patience? Well, let’s look at this. “Let patience have a perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.” Now, it was patience that makes us a full-grown Christian. And the very interesting thing is patience is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. You’ll never be patient by trying. And neither does the Holy Spirit place it on a silver platter. Patience comes through suffering and testing. You’ll never be a “perfect”—now that means “a complete; of full maturation—as a Christian, and you can’t be that without patience.