Christians Are A Target

When we become Christian, we catch Satan's attention.  He paints a bull's eye on our back and colours it in.  There is nothing that so characterises all the activities of Satan as his subtlety.  This is why James says:  Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance (James 1:2-3).  We are to rejoice because it is proof of our faith.  Trials are often God's way of acknowledging our good faith and because it is good, He tests it.  When there is a network connection problem with our internet after it has been good after a long while, we test its connection.  After we have had good faith in God for a while and a problem causes us to lose our connection with God, He tests our connection.  Or He can test us simply because He can, as we can likewise do with our internet.

The moment we become Christian, Satan is particularly concerned with depressing us, and he has no more successful way of doing that than to make us miserable. There are endless manifestations to make that happen, even our own ignorance of the fact that it is Satan, not God, who makes our lives "suck" even more (as it appears to us).  One of the methods Satan favours using is the persecution we face from unbelievers — them trying to convince us that there is no God.  Why it is their personal mission to make us miserable and cause so much animosity and strife is unfathomable; but all I know is that Satan uses them as a means to an end to make us miserable, and he is really good at doing that.  I used to be a victim of misery.  My misery, however, has grown towards frustration not at the hostile unbelievers, but at Satan's influence upon them.  I do not condemn them, either; rather, I ignore them, for they ignore and deny truth, and such speech of God's Word fuels them to become exponentially hostile and hateful.  They are simply tools of the Devil.  So when you think your life "sucks," first of all remember that there are far worse things that you can suffer from in this world; and secondly, remember that if you continue to put the blame on God — an innocent party of the matter — you'll just fall further under Satan's dominion of misery.