Stop Picking on Me

Do you ever feel like God is picking on you?  Do you wonder why you are having to face so many trials when the "bad people" seem to get off so easy?  I had a conversation with a dear friend the other day about this very thing.  She is not going through one trial, but many at the same time.  It is hard to understand why in the world the Lord would just keep piling on the the difficulties when all you are doing is trying to come up for air. 
I face this a lot in the matter of infertility.  When I see mothers murdering their children or when I read a book like Unplanned that is all about women getting abortions at an astounding rate,  I often cry out to God and wonder why in the world he wouldn't give Bryan and I another child.  When we would raise that child in a Christian home and love that child, why would he allow the "bad people" to be blessed and not us.
Peter tells us why we go through trials like this.  ...though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.  These have come so that your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.  1 Peter 1:6-7
The first thing we need to understand is that we are suffering so that our faith can be proved genuine.  It is only through trials that our true self is revealed.  When put in difficult situations, how are we going to react.  Are we going to get mad and turn away from God or are we going to embrace his loving kindness and cling to him?
Secondly, we go through this so that in the end, Jesus may receive all the praise, glory, and honor.  We may not understand it until Jesus comes back to reveal the glory of our salvation, but at some point, all our suffering will point to Jesus. 
It is so hard to go through trials and understand the "why" of it all.  A loved one is taken away from us, a job is lost, a dream is destroyed, or a marriage falls apart.  How in the world would these things bring praise and honor to our Lord?  I don't quite understand it all, but I do know this.  We are witnesses to this world.  When we do go through these trials, the eyes of the world are watching.  Are we going to stand true to our beliefs or turn away from the God we love.  The trial will show our true beliefs.