God takes us through valleys so that we know the feeling of a true mountaintop high. God allows us to go through storms of all sorts, floods, dry seasons, high winds, no winds, extreme heat, and bitter cold so that not only could we experience the vastness of His power and creativity, but also so that our character could be tested and tried.
During some seasons of our lives, God guides us the "long way" through the desert perhaps to see if we can learn trust, patience, and obedience to follow Him. In some seasons of our lives, He provides the wondrous miracles of what it is like to walk on water, or what it is like to see for the first time after being blind for a lifetime, or what it is like to have a never-ending supply of oil in our jars.
Whatever the season, in each of them God is there to shepherd us, to show His love for us, and to bring us ever closer to Him and His glory. Therefore, the question isn't "Why are we going through this?" or "Why is this happening to me?"; instead, the question is and should be "What am I going to do about this in the light of God's love?"
How we respond in each season we experience will show who we are in Christ.
"For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven."
Ecclesiastes 3:1
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