Why God allows Christians to go through trials

There are many reasons, and one of them is that God wants to end our problems and destroy our enemies completely. God also wants to gain honour over our enemies. Remember the Israelites and how they escaped from Egypt? Along their journey, they couldn’t proceed because Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army, overtook them camping by the sea. The Israelites panicked and thought that they were doomed, but Moses wasn’t frightened by the situation.

He encouraged them to be still and watch how God would defeat their enemies. God demonstrated his power through Moses by instructing him to stretch out his hand towards the red sea to divide it. The Israelites walked on dry ground through the midst of the red sea. But Pharaoh and his army were swallowed by the red sea.

Remember that the Bible says in Jeremiah 29:11 that God's plans are not to harm us, but to prosper us.

God allowed the problem to occur so that he could receive honour from the Israelites. Don't run from your problems, but face them instead. The problems you see today, you will see them no more. They aren’t meant to hurt you, but to push you to your destiny. And the Bible in the book of James 1:2 encourages us to count it joy when we go through trials, because we know that testing of our faith produces perseverance.

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