Tried and tested

The Lord gives each of His children a specific promise (according to each one's life) to carry out His perfect plan. And there is always a time frame between a promise given and the time of its fulfillment. During this phase, all that we should do as God's children is to hold on to His promise with faith. Faith is an intangible and unseen thing and to hold on to something which we cannot hold or see requires quite a courage. But we can hold on to His promise with courage for the only reason He who promised is faithful...

But until the time of fulfillment comes, there will be a lot of trials with respect to the promise of God. The devil will try to steal that promise saying things that will hinder our faith. Thoughts of doubt whether the Lord really gave that promise to us or are we trying to interpret it the right way or is it the will of God...Such thoughts can be attributed as test to our faith. Yet to hold on to God and His promise, we need to be ready to be tried and tested...Only then we shall come forth as gold that is refined.

Psalm 105:19 (New American Standard Bible)
Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the LORD tested him.

The Lord gave a dream to Joseph that He will rule over his brothers. But that did not come to pass immediately. Instead he was sold as a slave, was falsely accused and imprisoned. He went through all hard core trials and only then the promise was fulfilled. But all these trials refined Joseph as a man of character.So all our trials are worth the cost when we will see the promise of God fulfilled in our lives.