When God sends us on a journey over steep and flinty paths he will not fail to provide us with suitable shoes.
Asher's portion was not an accidental one; it was of God's choosing.
Nor is there any accident in the ordering of the place, the conditions, the circumstances, of any child of God's.

Our times are in God's hands.

No doubt, then, the hardnesses and difficulties of any one's lot are part of the divine ordering for the best growth of the person's life.
There was a compensation in Asher's rough portion.

His rugged hills had iron in them.

This law of compensation runs through all God's distribution of gifts.