If you go to the website HONDA.com click on the link staring at you that says something like FAILURE and SUCCESS. And this is a good short stories for 5 minutes explaining how the BEST OF THE BEST rate their success ONLY from the result of failure(s). When someone climbs the top of the ladder so to speak and there's no further way to get any higher, an old Japanese piece of knowledge explains that this is when the "Ladder" is burnt to the ground so to speak where you are forced to have to start all over again, and this ultimately leads to a great humbling of the individual to allow them to grow to where they had no other way to allow any kind of REAL growth from that point. Maybe this will help.
First, that's a pretty blanket statement. God doesn't take everything away from us. God doesn't do all the taking either. He allows things to happen to us for many reasons. One big one is to strengthen our faith so we can grow closer to Him and become more reliant upon Him. Look at Job for example. God allowed the enemy to take pretty much all Job had. But Job stood fast and in the end was rewarded with more than he had to begin with. I'm guessing that you might have lost something or someone that meant a lot to you. What we do sometimes - and it's just human nature - is when a bunch of smaller things happen to us we keep them all hidden down inside. Then when something big happens we bring back all those things to the big one and become overwhelmed. It happens. Black and white thinking. But there are so many colors in between and we need to focus on them to avoid the all or nothing reactions. When things happen to us we need to apply self-discipline and patience. As believers, things will happen that aren't always "good". But we can't lose our perspective or we might wind up giving up and turning around and walking away. If we do we just have to remember that God is working in our lives to perfect us in our faith in Him and that He is waiting for us to to acknowledge His control. This is from an expanded translation from the original Greek. Hope this will help. Matthew 11:28-30. Jesus speaking: "Come here to Me, all who are growing weary to the point of exhaustion, and who have been loaded with burdens and are bending beneath their weight, and I alone will cause you to cease from your labor and will take away your burdens and thus refresh you with rest. Take at once My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find cessation from labor and refreshment for your souls, for My yoke is mild and pleasant, and My load is light in weight."
