Why God Gives Good People Hard Trials

When someone passes through a trial, it can be difficult to understand God's reasons for letting the trial occur. This is especially true when those most affected by the trial are innocent and righteous people, yet those are the people to whom God seems to subject to the most intense suffering.

One possible reason this may be true is that things which are already pure take extra effort to purify further. A liquid that has already passed through a sieve will need to pass through a tighter sieve in order to become more pure.

It follows that a person who is already largely devoid of unchristlike attributes would have to pass through ever more severe trials to be refined further. If that's the case, God would have to put His most righteous followers through the most difficult purifying trials in order to help them become more pure.

So if you find yourself or a loved one facing especially difficult trials, that may be because you or your loved one were already fairly righteous at the start, so it takes more pressing challenges to help you become even better.

Of course, this analogy falls apart when one considers that we can choose how we want to live, and the most righteous people are often those who require the least prodding to convince them to do good and become better. However, those people can still find comfort in their most difficult trials by remembering that God's help is always available to them. We may not know why God gives us the trials He gives us, but we know that God will always be willing to help us get through them.

No matter how good we become in this life, God will always work with us to help us become better, and sometimes that means forcing us to face difficult trials. We must remember that God always wants what's best for us and He has an eternal perspective. Our trials can be extremely painful, but they're designed for our benefit, and the benefits we gain from them will far outweigh the pain of enduring them.

Whatever His reasons are, God often gives His hardest trials to His most faithful followers, so if you're facing hardship, take heart. It may mean that God thinks you're doing something right.