Adversity is defined as a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty.
People respond to adversity in many ways – from apathy to panic and everything in between.
According to Paul the apostle, one of the goals of adversity is so that it can push us to rely on God.
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. (2 Corinthians 1:9)
This is what John Piper said…
Adversity by its very nature is the removal of things on which our comfort and hope have rested and so it will either result in anger toward God or greater reliance on Him alone for our peace.
And his purpose for us in adversity is not that we get angry or discouraged, but that our hope shift off earthly things onto God.
God’s main purpose in all adversity is to make us stop trusting in ourselves or any man.