STEEMCHURCH| Where Is God When Life Hurts?
Greetings to you all, I hope this message meets you well, I say a big thank you to all my readers, more blessings and favour i pray thee.
Today I would love to share with us a topic that have got lots of persons bothering and pondering around the world, its titled "Where is God When Life Hurts?", its a powerful one, i want you to sit back, relax and enjoy.
Where is God When Life Hurts?
This is one of life's most profound questions for both believers and non-believers.Believers wonder where God's goodness and grace is, as they patiently wait on it to appear.Non-believers find this to be one of the biggest hang-ups to accepting God's offer of grace in Christ.I have heard these questions frequently from people:
- How could a good God allow evil to happen?
- Why does God allow children to starve in other parts of the world?
- Why does God allow tragedy, pain and death to take away those we love?
- Why am I taking so long to grow more like Christ?
All of us encounter pain and suffering.And as our world grows more globally connected, we hear about pain and suffering in other parts of the world more than any other generation in history.It can be easy to be overwhelmed and discouraged by all of it. It is possible for our faith to suffer because of it.
Here are 4 helpful answers to these important questions, and more:
1. GOD TOLD US THIS LIFE WOULD HURT
God did not set up our world to be utopia. He made heaven for that. He gives each of us a choice on this earth - to choose His ways and walk in His peace, or to choose our own way, which leads to destruction and pain. God isn't the author of most of the pain and destruction in our world. Most of that comes from the world, the flesh and the devil.So much of the pain and tragedy in this world is caused by our collective sin. But too often we don't see our sin well enough. Psalm 36:2 says,
"In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin."
We need to realize that we are good at messing things up. God is good at cleaning things up.Many tragedies in this world are caused by the enemy of our souls, the devil, who
"goes around like a roaring lion," and spends all his time trying to "steal, kill and destroy."
The devil would just love for us to blame all the chaos and destruction he causes in our world on God. God told us this life would hurt, but he also sent us a Savior who will comfort us like no one else can, and God is always working in our lives to make all things new, if we only allow Him in.
2. SOMETIMES IT'S DIFFICULT TO SEE WHAT GOD'S DOING
Even while we know this earth will not be perfect, we yearn for God to respond to our prayers, and bring wholeness. And often he does over time. But in a single difficult moment, it can be hard to see what God is doing.Open the Psalms and read a few chapters, and you will quickly see it's been the cry of God's people for thousands of years to question and plead for God to bring justice, healing, answers to prayers.But we don't always see the answers to our prayers quickly. And sometimes stories even end in tragedy or death - making it difficult at times to see what God is doing. Paul said,
"Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely." (1 Corinthians 13:12)
In moments where it is difficult to see what God is doing, we must trust in God's past faithfulness, and future promises.
3. THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN THIS LIFE
We were not made for this life alone. We were made to live forever. This is why every person on earth knows deep in their bones that they have "eternity in their hearts." We all sense this in our core.This world is not our home, we're just passing through. There's more to life than this life. So we can't judge God's justice or goodness by this life alone. We have to consider His goodness for all of eternity.
Eternity... where those who trusted in Jesus... even those who faced pain, hunger, tragedy and death in life - will enter into eternal joy in the presence of God forever:
"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” (Revelation 21:4)
4. THERE'S ALWAYS MORE POSITIVE THAN NEGATIVE
Don't get stuck in the negative. See the good too. Even while this earth is full of pain and death, it is also overflowing with the love and goodness of God. (see Psalm 33:5) Paul reminds us to spend our lives focusing on the things that are "lovely, pure, noble, and of good report." Victor Frankyl showed in Man's Search for Meaning that someone can face the greatest horrors in history, and still choose to see the good in any given set of circumstances.
Don't spend all your time focusing on the negative. You don't need to deny it, or lie about it, but allow grace, the pure grace of God, to consume your soul far more than anything.God doesn't always give us the answers we seek, but He does always give us more of Himself.As Matt Chandler has said, "The good news of the gospel is that you get Jesus, regardless of your circumstances." And for those of us who have experienced Jesus, there is nothing better, even in the midst of the confusion of this world.
I HOPE YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY THIS WONDERFUL PIECE OF MINE,
REMAIN BLESSED!!!
GOD LOVES US YOU!!!