I am deviating away just a little bit from a normal blog post but I feel compelled to discuss the age old question - "Why do bad things happen to good people?" I read a blog this morning that also attempted to answer the same question.
Perhaps we should flip the coin and ask the question "Why do good things happen to bad people?" We were all born sinners and continue to have the sin nature in us. Therefore we are all bad. It is through God's grace, mercy and His love for us that good things happen. ALL GOOD things come from God.
Asking the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" in a way makes God out to be sadistic - even if you quote scriptures such as "All good things work together for the good of those who love God."
I understand that during the midst of a bad situation it is human nature to search for answers, to turn to God looking for answers. I don't believe that this age old question will ever be answered - I'm just saying that maybe if we look at the situations from a different perspective, perhaps it will help us to better understand God and come to know Him more as we see Him working through our bad situation.
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jess says...
i wish i could blog this short!
this is a hard thing to remember. we as people, and americans especially, we feel entitled to certain "inalienable rights." these rights are stated in the constitution...yet...we always kind of add to this. this feeling of entitlement, i think, makes us think that we somehow deserve more from this life and, as a result, more from God.
you are right about having your eyes open in a bad situation. if we sit around moping about how God is--as i heard one lady put it one time--"picking on me" then we will never actually see what God is doing.
if we could just open our eyes...we would see that maybe we were held up in traffic because God didn't want us to die in the accident five minutes ahead of us.
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