HE READ THAT ROLL <| sep |> I know how you feel . I beg him every night for my life to change . The Bible makes a lot of claims about how good things will happen for followers of God particularly in the Psalms and it seems like a load of nonsense . I hang on by reminding myself that the promises written in the Bible were given to the people in the Bible , not to every reader throughout all time , except for that of eternal life , which is the whole point anyway . Most people will say trust God and he ' ll make things better , but whatever you think you were promised , you weren ' t except for salvation . Hang on to your faith for salvation , and take the steps you need to to fix your earthly life yourself . Honestly , I go back and forth between this and trying to trust God because that ' s what EVERYONE tells us to do , but there really is no reason to he DIDN ' T promise he would make our lives easy or better or anything , and for manymost Christians , he doesn ' t . I think God ' s interest is in our souls , not our daily lives . Follow God for salvation , not for getting things from him , and take charge of your own life . Sometimes things will work out how you want them to , and sometimes they won ' t just like for the billions of people who never think about God at all . The difference is our sins are forgiven , and theirs aren ' t . But we all have to get through life , and it rains and the sun shines on the good and the bad alike . Good things happen to bad people , and bad things happen to good people . Following God isn ' t about this life , it ' s about the next . I will continue to hope that I am wrong , and that it ' s all a matter of timing and he will , at some point , make things better . but I ' m not going to bank on it . I ' m going to do what I can to fix things myself , and try to remember not to hold it against him when he doesn ' t step in this side of heaven , because he never said he would . tldr the point to following God is salvation , not getting an easy life . A final thought that I can ' t figure out how to work in elsewhere God not doing what you want doesn ' t mean he isn ' t good though I believe that his ostensible goodness doesn ' t matter , but that ' s a different discussion . His goodness is found in his love for us and , again , his willingness to forgive us , not in how many earthly gifts he gives us or how much he chooses to intervene in our lives .