Then the LORD asked Satan, Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.

Job 1:8

God Gives His Toughest Battles to His Strongest Soldiers

“The phrase means that when we face difficult situations or challenges, we should view them as an opportunity to grow and develop our strengths rather than as a punishment or a sign of weakness. It encourages us to believe in our abilities and trust that we have been given the tools we need to overcome adversity.” -  Joseph M. Jordan - Christian Faith Guide

But doesn’t it seem like God picks on certain people?

Though this phrase isn’t Biblical it does beg us to ask ourselves a couple questions:

1. Does God pick on people?
2. Does God pick people?

To pick on someone

• To treat someone unfairly, by blaming, criticizing or punishing them

To pick someone

• To choose someone or something for some particular purpose or function.
• To choose someone or something for the benefit of someone or something

Was God picking on Job? No. God picked Job. No. God picks us.

Testing to reveal things:

• In others that we can’t see. 
• In ourselves that we can’t see. 
• About God we haven’t seen before.

Remember in the testing/trial

• But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
  2 Corinthians 12:9 (ESV)

• Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.
  James 1:2-4 (MSG)

And about Satan:

He is making a pit that he himself will fall in.

“Foolish devil! He is piling up a pedestal on which God will set his servant Job, that he may be looked upon with wonder by all ages… Oh! how many saints have been comforted in their distress by this history of patience! How many have been saved out of the jaw of the lion, and from the paw of the bear by the dark experiences of the patriarch of Uz. O arch fiend, how art thou taken in thine own net! Thou hast thrown a stone which has fallen on thine own head. Thou madest a pit for Job, and hast fallen into it thyself; thou art taken in thine own craftiness.” - Charles Spurgeon

Who was Job?

Satan a minister?

“Satan may intend one thing, but God uses him for another. In all these things he is a minister – used for the ultimate blessing, comfort, and help of the people of God, and for their present spiritual profit… He was allowed to be the author of Job’s trials and losses: but all his labour was wasted; for it ended in Job’s receiving a double blessing for time, and for earth, and ‘the righteousness of God’ for ever and ever.” - E.W. Bullinger

Appreciate my picking, and let the trial do its work so my faith will be stronger, and knowledge of the Lord will be more intimate.