Stand Guard at the Door of Your Mind

Do I believe the following things:
1. Problems in life (suffering) are GIFTS. Challenging and sculpting my soul (sanctification).
2. Life is happening FOR ME, not TO ME, and I am responsible to build faith muscles by resistance training against trials.
3. I serve a good, TRUSTWORTHY, generous, life-giving, liberating, FULFILLING, joyful God.

I read through the following with a group of critical thinkers several weeks back and I can't stop thinking about it:

So