protection?

When you were first saved, did you think that I would protect you from all pain and suffering? How did that work out? Do you see your fellow believers going through the same difficulties and tribulations as others around you? You have a steadfast hope in me concerning ultimate reality and your final destiny, so you do not sorrow as those without hope. Yet I have not left you alone in this world. Even if you feel that I am not protecting you from anything, can you also say that I am sustaining you in everything? Even if you are accounted as sheep for the slaughter and your outward man perish, your inward man is renewed every day.