Why do bad things happen to good people? It’s the
age old question that plagues us all still. There are multiple problems with
this question. First, at what point did "bad" things become relegated
to circumstantial issues that concern God in the least bit? Is he no more in
the know of these occurrences than when they don't happen, or when life is
good? Or is he justified in such times maybe when the person it happens to is
more "deserving"? I just don't know at what point we made the
decision that what happens in this life isn't ultimately good in every way?
Understandable? Likable? Or even Preferred? Maybe not, but its dangerous to say
that what happens isn't in any way connected with Gods loving hand moving in
our lives!
Second, when did we become good? Jesus even
deferred "goodness" strictly to the Father. I'm just not sure that
when asking such a question that we can appropriately label any of us
"good". Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly believe that in Christ we
ARE a new creation and perfected before the Father as taught in the New
Testament. I also am well aware of the dangerous popular cultural belief that
our lives in Christ should be filled with comfort and ease! The model of life
for us all is Jesus, right? Was he not the ultimate example of life and
perfection? Yet his life was filled with hurt, pain, and ultimately suffering
and shame at the expense of we the "good" people.
I am not writing because I have answers, I am writing because I am
suffering, people around me are suffering, and I want to be submissive to what
Christ is calling us toward.... I want to obey the suffering; I want to be more
like Jesus today than yesterday!
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