How can a God who is all Loving allow ….. to happen?

This is a follow up from last week’s post. If you haven’t read the last post, It just isn’t fair, then please do consider reading that one first, as that post sets my mind set for this post.

Brief summary of last week’s post.
Life isn’t fair.
Jesus told us this in Matthew 20 1-16.
God says “My grace is sufficient for you.”

You really do need to read the whole post to understand them three short statements.

In order to try to answer the question of why does God allow ….. to happen, I think that we need to first look at where (or who) the question is coming from.

I do believe that the enemy (the devil) is the one who wispers that very thought into our minds.

It is, after all, a very effective thought that can keep people away from God.

If you are focusing on all that is wrong, then you are not seeing all the goodness that God has for you.

It’s an age old tactic that the enemy has been using since the fall, all the way back in Genesis 3. If he can get you to listen to him, instead of God, then he (the enemy) can lead you astray by questioning if God does indeed know what is best.
God is God and does actually know what is best!

As I wrote about last week, life just isn’t fair.
Suffering is another aspect of that unfairness.

The real question should be, how will you deal with …. when you see or experience it?

Ultimately, we can stand and shake our fist at God and ask “What are you doing?” Or we can run to Him and ask, “Lord, help us”

When everything else is cut away, we are then left with.
Will you blame God for …. , or will you call out to Him for help?

You could even possibly be part of the solution to …. , if you will just follow His steps that He has for you???

A friend of mine once said a really irritating phrase to me. If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem.

I think that he said it to be funny, and a bit irritating, but I do see a truth here. (Or at least a partial truth.)

If there is rubbish on the street and you just walk past it, then you are part of the problem of rubbish on the street, by ignoring it and walking past it. (Do you see how irritating this statement can be?)

We can always endeavour to not add to the problem by putting our own rubbish into a bin or taking it home to deal with.

There are some problems that are too big for you to be the answer to.
I have written a post on this idea already called, Somebody else’s problem.

There are some thing’s where we can possibly be part of the solution and there are some things where it is not for us to intervene. We need to use wisdom to know the difference.

If we choose to not be part of the solution (when God has asked us to be part of the solution) then the answer to the question of, why do you allow …. , is because “You won’t do what was asked of you.”

How many times has God said, “I see the problem and I have a solution, I made you and put you in a place where you can be part of the solution.”

To try and keep the thinking in its most simple form, is there a something wrong where you could be part of the solution?
If world hunger is something that you think is wrong, then do you support a charity with regular giving (that you are able to do) that is fighting against world hunger?

Are you starting to see how you could possibly be part of the solution to some things?

For some suffering, it can appear that there is no such answer to it. Health problems can be one such suffering.

If bad health affects us, then how will we deal with this?

Will we stand and shake our fist at God, asking “How can you allow this to happen?” Or will you run to God and ask, “Lord, help me!”

It is when we are suffering that God will say to us all the more, “My grace is sufficient for you.” If we will only call out to Him.

You might be tempted to say, “It’s easy for you to say that, but you don’t see what I’m going through.”

I don’t know what it is that you are going through, but I have known my own troubles. In next week’s post I plan to share some of my and my wife’s testimony with the hope that it might help someone else who is going through something, and help you to understand my point of view that much better.

In closing this post I still think that Father’s last word to us will still be, “My grace is sufficient for you.” (From 2 Corinthians 12:9)

Father,
It’s never easy when we are suffering.
Seeing or experiencing it.
Help us to look to You at all times, and all the more so in times of trouble.
You are our Loving Father and You are there to help us.
So help us to run to You so that You can be our help, so that we can all say, Your grace is sufficient for me.
Amen.