The question that constantly stays with us. Why do people suffer? Why do bad things happen to good people?
WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S Lewis
1. SUFFERING SOMETIMES COMES FROM SIN.
6 For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and He punishes each one He accepts as his child.” 7 As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as His own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? 8 If God doesn’t discipline you as He does all of His children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really His children at all.
Hebrews 12:6-8 (NLT)
2. SUFFERING SOMETIMES COMES BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A FALLEN WORLD.
12 When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. Romans 5:12 (NLT)
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.
Romans 3:23 (NLT)
3. SUFFERING SOMETIMES COMES FROM THE MYSTERIOUS PROVIDENCE OF GOD FOR HIS REASONS, SOME OF WHICH WE MAY NEVER KNOW.
1 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2 “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?” 3 “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him. John 9:1-3 (NLT)