Why does God allow trials to come as you are serving Him?

In our mission, I have seen our illness-filled trip as the big issue. Which makes one feel guilt about not serving God fully as they should. But one and foremost will of God would be that you are walking too fast and have to rely on your own strength for too much. I can feel how this long trip is exhausting for all of us already and we really want to make the best of the time as much as we can. And Pat said to me, that sometimes God allows challenges to come because He needs you to pause a little bit to see Him more clearly in God’s journey with you. I couldn’t agree more with this. I used to experience walking and running with God before. Which is so tiring. And when the trial came I could only feel the fulfillment of God during those times, more than that God allows you to rest, allows you to be restored and revived. At the end of the day, you alone can only feel the wholeness of God that is with you all the time. The verse from Genesis 15:1 was sent to me by God, and I used to think that the reward for me was my free time, my resting time, and my time with God’s son and daughters less but God told me your reward is greater than that. He told me, my reward is Jesus Christ. That is my true reward. And I just realized with my great joy that it is true. I have been walking too fast on this journey and even forgot about the beauties that were happening along the way there. Forget to see Christ is there all the time during your trial. This is a great reminder of our journey to me. When illness comes, it’s not that He is happy that it happens but He is happy that your body can rest in Him and be with Him more than you can realize.