Nobody volunteers to be squeezed, but if you want wine, you have to squeeze the grapes. We pray for growth, then struggle when it comes through a setback, a difficult person, or a season we never would have chosen. Our first instinct is often to get out of it as quickly as possible, but what if we paused to ask a harder question: What could God be forming in me here that might one day serve someone else? Pressure alone doesn’t guarantee good things are coming, but the deepest growth rarely comes without it.