Many believers are caught out when bad things happens to them. Ps 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all. Note the emphasis in this verse: “Many are the afflictions” The righteous do suffer. Already in the first 4th page of the Bible, Cain killed Able. He did nothing wrong, he did what was right and was murdered.

Take [with me] your share of the hardships and suffering [which you are called to endure] as a good (first- class) soldier of Christ Jesus 2 Tim 2:3 See this sharp warning by Hudson Taylor the famous missionary to china and later Africa about Christians seeking comfort rather than war. http://www.inthebeginning.com/articles/chocolate.htm

Many are healed and even raised from the dead, for God is a God of miracles. Yet many does not receive these wonderful blessings… Is God at fault? Did He forget? Is He not the God of love? He certainly is a merciful and loving God, faithful and just but some receive their reward not on this life according to the Faith Hero List in Hebrews 11. “Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.” Heb 11:36-40

Rejoice in Suffering: According to the Bible Suffering is good for you. Therefor Rejoice! The anecdote “no pain no gain” come to mind on the wall of a Gymnasium. God uses the good and the bad in our lives, both is His servants. So it should be for us.
James 1: 2–4; Romans 5: 3–4

God chastens those He love. We instinctively know this and want discipline. Love without discipline is flaky and idealistic. Love and discipline is interconnected and cannot be separated. We cannot have the one without the other. Hebrews 12: 5–13

Discipline begins at home. This is true also for the household of the Father. We do not discipline and scourge naughty children that is unknown to us, and where we have not received the permission from these children’s lawful guardians. 1 Peter 4: 17 In the same way God always begin His discipline IN His house. Thus the Babylonian exile being the result of the Jews not complying to God’s law and instruction for a long time. Di