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From the Pastor's Study Ron Lee |
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Why
do bad things happen to good people?
Why do good people have to suffer even though they do not deserve
to suffer? In order to answer these questions, we must first understand
what “life” is. It is
my understanding that the human life is characterized by its own
uniqueness and its similarities with all other human beings.
Your life is unique in that there is only one of you and you put
your own fingerprint on the world that meets you each day.
Yet your life is similar to all others in that all people have
the same needs and our bodies carry out the same biological processes. We all experience similar if not the same pressures from
society and our environment (even though we respond to them
differently). If a sinner
and a righteous person are standing outside and it begins to rain, the
righteous person will get just as wet as the sinner.
If the human body is exposed to disease, the righteous and the
unrighteous have the same possibility of becoming ill.
If they step in front of an oncoming car, both will be hit. It
is a fact that bad things do happen to good people.
But it is not a matter of deserving or not deserving the pain.
In fact our righteousness does not build a hedge about us, rather
it tears the hedges down, making us even more vulnerable to pain and
grief. Please don’t
believe that any of life’s experiences are merely the products of
“fate”. For the most
part, you are in control of your own life’s choices and direction. Just
as death comes to all people, sickness, sorrow, pain, grief, and
suffering are not respecters of persons, regardless of their faith or
lack of it. Am I saying that faith has not value? Certainly NOT!! You
see, it is our faith that separates us from the world and gives value to
our experiences, however good or bad they may be.
After all, the question is not “How do we escape the bad??”,
but rather, “What can we become in spite of evil?” Bad
things happen to all of us not because it is what we deserve, but simply
because we are human beings and we don’t live in plastic bubbles. If
what the Bible says is true (and I know it is), that “All things work
together for good for those who love the Lord,” then let us allow God
to work in and through the bad things in our lives that the good might
become reality. “Just” believe in and trust God.
He is faithful to His Word!
Bro. Ron
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