Why Does God Allow Suffering?
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I was raised in a home with a very vengeful God. He was watching everything you did, just waiting for an opportunity to punish each of us.
I later found out that God isn’t like that at all.
Although much has been written about suffering in the world, and I think you should read the column above, I have my own ideas about suffering and why it happens.
First, the universe is made up of rules. These rules are necessary for the world to function. Otherwise, we would have chaos. No one wants to live in chaos because it can drive you to insanity. We have no way of feeling secure.
When God made the world, He made it perfect. He made perfect human beings. He gave us a perfect world to live in. When Satan tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, not only did we as humans give up that perfect world, but we gave our world over to Satan. It became his domain.
That’s the reason why, when Satan tempted Jesus, he offered Jesus the kingdoms of the world if Jesus would just bow down to him. Satan couldn’t do that if he didn’t have dominion over the world. He can’t do anything God doesn’t allow him to do.
We often attribute the bad things that happen in the world to God, but seldom do we give Him credit for all of the wonderful things that happen. It just seems to be our nature as humans to focus on the bad.
The truth is, bad things happen for many reasons. A lot of bad things that we lay at the feet of God are really our own fault. That’s a tough truth to swallow, but that’s really the way it is. Sometimes bad things happen to us because God allows it to perfect our character.
We never grow, we never become, and we never get to be the people we were meant to be unless we undergo the trials of life and succeed at suffering those trials.
Life isn’t about what happens to us, it’s about what we do about what happens to us. The ultimate path to growth is to embrace all of the things that happen to us and take responsibility for them. For the things done to us we didn’t have control over, we have to take responsibility for our reactions.
It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but in the end it’s well worth it because we grow, we move on to the next level in our existence, and we have the opportunity to become more than we are now.
It personally breaks my heart to see others suffer. I know that many times this suffering is the result of the evil of others. We have to fight that evil and stand against it. We have to remove every possible foothold that Satan has, not only in the world, but in our own lives.
I know from experience how hard this really is, but I also know from experience that I can turn to God, and He will give me the strength and the fortitude to overcome.
Ultimately, for me, if loving God, and loving others as I love myself is wrong, then I guess I will have to be wrong. Loving others is a reflection of who I am, not who they are.
Learning to love has set me free. It has released me from the past. It has put me in a position to grow and become everything God wants me to be and live the life He has in store for me.
Not only is this exciting, it’s liberating. It opens the doors to new possibilities. It gives me the opportunity to experience life in a whole new way.
Whatever you are suffering today, know that God is there for you, and He will help you. You have to ask though, and it’s very hard sometimes to know that we have to depend on someone else.
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