“Why?” is the question we wrestle with most when our hearts are broken and our lives are in shambles.
Why would God allow me to suffer?Why do such bad things happen to good people?
You aren’t the only person who has asked those questions. Throughout Psalms, David, a king who was known as a man after God’s own heart, asks why over and over again (Palm 22:1).
A whole book of the Bible is dedicated to Job, a righteous man who lost everything and everyone he loved, then argued with friends about why it all fell apart. Even Jesus let out a heartfelt “Why?” to God as He died on the cross (Matthew 27:46).
So why does God allow us to suffer? Couldn’t He have created a world where there was no suffering? The answer is: He did!
When God created the world it was perfect. Genesis 1:31 says, “God saw all that He made, and it was very good.” There was no sin, no sickness, no death, or betrayal. But after the first humans entered the earth, so did sin. And that changed everything (Genesis 1-2).
Since then, it’s not a matter of if we will have troubles, but when we will! In John 16:33, Jesus says, “I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
In Christ, we can rest assured that our pain is not God’s fault. On the contrary, our greatest pain is an opportunity to see God’s power.
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