As Christians, we need to refuse to allow the world to speak louder than us.  And when our words won’t do it, our walk will.  Our peers may not always believe what we say about faith, but it’s our responsibility to inspire them to believe by how we act in our faith.Example always trumps the verbal.You see, it’s easy to teach the tenets of Christianity, but success comes by simply living it for others to see it.  Years and years of education and learning theology can be trumped by minutes of humility, honesty, and mercy.  You can’t get a degree in kingdom thinking. No!  This mindset is learned through life—deep experience.  It must be cultivated to be manifested. And often it takes suffering to bring success to the surface.And that is why God doesn’t trust everybody with trouble; only those He knows will allow Him to show off His grace and glory through the trouble—like Job in the Old Testament. Job wasn’t sinless, just blameless.  He walked in his integrity and that was his security. You see, he was secure—not from the devil's external attacks that he suffered—but he was secure by his own internal resilience that allowed for him to suffer successfully through the attacks.Thus, our security is linked to our integrity.Yes, trouble touched him, but the trouble did not take him.  Job took the trouble and turned it into triumph by his response to the trouble; not by what he knew intellectually-- but how he responded to it faithfully. Don’t be fooled however if you have found yourself with no problems, because the absence of trouble doesn’t always mean blessing.  In fact, the absence of trouble could possibly mean that you are not worthy of the testing.  Keep in mind that the devil doesn’t mess with those who are no threat.  Nor does God test our present unless He’s preparing us for something greater in the future.The truth of the matter is:  No one is actively looking for trouble, but if it comes our way, the ultimate goal should be to magnify God through the trouble; because the world is watching and the Christian’s example needs to be steady teaching!