For many months now God has used the intensity of trial, suffering, and circumstance to teach me some of the most profound lessons of my life. Many of these lessons were ones I thought I already knew. Other lessons I had no idea I needed to learn. I had forgotten God's statement in Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind" (or literally, the most secret parts.)