Why Does God Allow Trials in Our lives?

Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso
"But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day..." (Genesis 50:20)

We sometimes wonder why God allows trials to come into our lives. We feel abandonment and pressured when we consider others circumstances, in comparable to our own, and question why God allows these sufferings to come among His faithful.
When we read the story of Job in the Old Testament Scriptures. We read with interest about the calamities which took away all his possessions and all his children in one terrible stroke. And yet, the first reaction of this godly man was to fall down and worship God.

Somebody may raise the question, "Well, why does God allow any pain to afflict us and try our faith?" The answer is found in a variety of Bible verses.  (Psalm 11:5) "The Lord trieth the righteous." We find comfort in, (James 1:3, 4) “The trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." 

Yes, God has good in mind for you-He controls the fires of affliction that come to you. He builds a hedge around us to protect us from that which we cannot bear. He sees that we need an experience of pain sometimes, and in great love He permits the right amount to come that is for our good. 

Strange as it may seem now, we will all someday thank God personally that He led exactly the way He did during our earthly life.  Paul will learn why a thorn had to stay with him during his missionary work.   Perhaps he'll also learn what his life might have been without the thorn that he prayed about so much.  You see Paul realized that "...we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."   (Romans 8: 28)

So, if you question why your life has been a trail of abusement from one trial to another, we should also remember to thank God for these trials.   "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations...7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ"  (1 Peter 1:6,7)
Remember that your accusers and abusers thought evil against you, but  "God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day."

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