// WHY GOD, WHY? PART 1 //
“God is good, all the time.” We love to say it, but here is a question: have you ever doubted that God IS good? There has always been and will always be suffering, pain and tragedy in the world and in our lives. If God is loving, why would he allow suffering? The answer is this: If love is a choice, suffering is a possibility. If it is possible to love, it is possible to hurt. We have all been given the power of free will, the ability to choose right or wrong, love or hate, and it is our access to free will that makes suffering and evil in this world possible. God gives us our free will because He loves us and He wants us to choose Him & love Him back. He isn’t a dictator, He is your Father. So why then do bad things happen to good people? This question is near impossible to answer. Even Jesus who never ever sinned faced the suffering of the cross. It’s not that God doesn’t love people, He loved His son ever so greatly. But even His son had to face suffering so that greater things could come. So what we do know is this: Suffering is never easy, but out of suffering we find: Blessing—Forgiveness—Freedom—Victory! That’s how good our God is, He can find good in the the bad and set you up for blessing. Something better is coming. It might not seem fair right now and at the moment you might doubt His goodness, but over a lifetime, we always see his faithfulness - we see God is good. All the time.
