Can someone please tell me why it is that doing work for God can be so hard sometimes? I mean, honestly - is it so naive to think that when you're doing something that is kingdom-building and relevant to the community that maybe you could catch a break every once in a while? One step forward and two steps back gets a little tiresome. By no means do I expect living and working for God to be a bed of roses, but does it have to be a pit of thorns? Seriously, it sometimes feels like our definition of things going well is just that nothing is going wrong. And what is so horribly unfair is to be in this city of giant churches with boatloads of money - churches that can do whatever they want and spend whatever they want, despite the fact that their theology leaves at least a little something to be desired. (And I'm not talking nitpicky theology stuff here.) So I guess my real question is, why does it seem like God blesses the churches that are built on shaky theological ground, but churches that are at least doing the best they can to seek after His will are forever fighting for every inch?