To be a soldier in His army...

God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers and climb mountains, and walk many a weary mile with heavy knapsacks on their backs. Well, Christian, may not this account for the troubles through which you are passing? Is not this the reason why He is contending with you? --C. H. Spurgeon

To be left unmolested by satan is no evidence of blessing.~Streams in the Desert

I love when I seek the Lord when things are going on in my life that leave me restless and feeling down and I can always find Him...