God tests His people through hardship.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
God has always been hard on the poor.
When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends.
The great test of life is obedience to God.
If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.