“I consider that our present
sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”
-Romans 8:18
One problem we have in asking “Why do
bad things happen to good people?” is that our perspective is incomplete. It is
like asking the outcome of the ballgame where there are still two important
minutes left.
God knows and understands and cares
about what is happening to you. This is something which you have to take by
faith when you walk through troubled waters. The hand of God hasn’t been lifted
when difficult situations confront His children. In the book that bears His
name, the Apostle Peter suggests that all the world is under the curse of the
sin. Peter suggests that all the world is under the curse of sin, but God
allows His children to walk through certain dark valleys under His protection
and care. Eventually the world at large will face the consequences of having
rejected the love of the Father when His hand is lifted.
In the process of facing suffering or
putting together the broken pieces of our lives, we usually cannot see what the
hand of God is doing. Paul wrote, “I consider that our present sufferings are
not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18).
You can’t experience the presence of
God during times of suffering and difficulty in measures that you would have
never known had you not gone through the deep waters. So don’t close the book
on God until you have crossed the threshold. Only then you be able to
understand well why bad things happen to good people.
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