Looking for trouble?

There are a few universal quotes that every person has heard of and some of these always go unquestioned or uncontested. One of them is one you hear from a friend when you are down and it goes something like "God gives trouble to those people who he feels can handle it". I was talking to a friend of mine the other day who mentioned this quote to me and I've heard this one a million times and I've never argued it but that day a thought just struck me. I thought that maybe it's not god who is dishing out the trouble to those who can handle it... But those who can handle trouble know this quality of their's to some extent and they take up tasks or do things in a way which increases the probability of them falling into the kind of trouble they can handle. The motive, of course, is that by increasing the probability of trouble, you do increase the returns you'll get out of an endeavor or a situation. On the contrary, those who feel that they can't handle trouble never take chances and in this way lead a trouble-free life but they give up on some things they want in the process. Just give it a thought...
Meanwhile, I'll think about how I have reduced God's role in another way by alleging that maybe he's not doing something that everyone is claiming that he's doing... I am not happy about this though. I wish he took more interest in our lives!