I believe that waiting is good exercise, and that patience is born of delay. Waiting is good exercise unless it spoils and rots through bitterness. It is good exercise unless the trust we earlier spoke, and the faith we professed were by our own hidden conditions limited to the good times, or constrained to our own finite understanding.
You do not trust God until you have something for which to trust God, until there is a need you cannot meet, or strength you cannot muster. You do not really trust God until your great store of courage and larger supply of valor prove altogether insufficient and inadequate for the trial.
The rhetorical question is the surest way to avoid the truth—or to state it. I am like any one else, sometimes confident and wise, sometimes feeling threatened and defensive.