Is God Making the Situation Harder to Strengthen Your Faith?

Sometimes it feels like every door is closing, every step is harder than the last, and you wonder if God is making life more difficult. But what if He isn’t trying to break you? What if He’s building you?

Faith doesn’t grow when everything is easy. It grows when we choose to trust God even when we don’t understand what He’s doing. Every trial is an opportunity to rely less on our own strength and more on His. God often uses difficult seasons to prepare us for the blessings and responsibilities ahead.

Don’t ask only, “God, why is this happening?” Instead ask, “Lord, what are You teaching me through this?” The struggle you’re facing today may become the testimony that encourages someone else tomorrow.

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” — James 1:2-3 (NIV)

— Rev. Carlos Figueroa