Oswald Chambers: "The [wave] that distresses the ordinary swimmer produces in the surf-rider the super-joy of going clean through it. Apply that to our own circumstances, these very things--tribulation, distress, persecution, produce in us the super-joy; they are not things to fight. We are more than conquerors... super-victors, with a joy we would not have but for the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us... The saint knows the joy of the Lord not in spite of tribulation, but because of it."
This fits exactly with what Lewis’s wife said in the movie about how it is the pain that makes the happiness that much more complete. They are both intertwined in a relationship that needs not differentiate them but combines them into one experience. This is a little like what I meanitoned early about Gods strength being made more perfect in our weakness, which is why we embrace tribulations, because it is those times of reliance that make us more than conquerors. Also, even too looking at it form the same perspective but on a different level, it is only through the tough times that we can really learn because eif everything was easy there would be no refinement. Using the idea in the bible about being the clay and God being the potter, we are being shaped by God. But this can only be done through pushing and pulling and many pressures in our life which God applies to make us more beautiful. It is then that we become a tribute to the maker and his work. Also, in the same way that the surfers in the quote enjoy the harsh waves because it make their emergence on the other side that much more spectacular, it is our low points which give meaning and make successes out of our high point.
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