Why I believe bad things happen to good people.
My faith isnāt shaken by tragedy; if anything, itās strengthened. God loves us enough to give us real free will. If He didnāt love us, He would force obedience. But free will means person Aās choices can become suffering for person B. For God to stop person A would mean loving them conditionally, and thatās not who He is. Juxtaposition of the beauty and danger of our free will is simply part of the human condition. Trusting God through willful obedience is how we honor Him while weāre still of the world. We obey out of gratitude for His love and the freedom He gives us. Scripture explains this perfectly.
Seeing free will as part of Godās plan helps me understand the Trinity. Our consciousness and soul are limited by the flesh, and anything in the flesh that bends toward harm is the devil exploiting that freedom. Rejecting a whim of the devil is accepting salvation and glorifying His name, Emmanuel. Godās love is the only perfect love. To love like Jesus is to love not in spite of flaws, but through them.
Stop blaming God; start blaming the devil. If we donāt want awful things to happen, our job is to go and make disciples of men. If thatās not your aim, then complaining about life being unfair doesnāt make sense. If that is your aim, then lifeās unfairness becomes something to rejoice in. Because seen through that lens, life is, in fact, fair.
The nature of suffering is beyond human comprehension, thatās where faith comes in.
I donāt need to defend my faith. I know what I know, and I believe with my whole heart. My faith is intrinsic. To me, my faith is so wildly logical that I get confused by suggestion of being disingenuous. But because I want others, especially the people close to me, to find peace in that same love, and because I refuse to be complicit in blasphemy of my God, Iāve been working on how to articulate this idea more clearly. I need my children to know the love of God.
We are not being judged by Christianity; we are being loved by God. Christians fail to reflect Christianity at all times because weāre still of the world. A Christianās disobedient judgment may contradict the Word and that is but a demonstration of free will, and thereby a reflection of His love- not a negation of it. Again, Godās love is the only perfect love. God has mercy and grace for our misgivings. When feeling convicted by the Holy Spirit, we must not submit to worldly shame but rather accept forgiveness and revel in divine love.













