That is a question which I had been dealing with for many
years. Many people might sadly say: “It is simply NOT fair.” It was not fair to
me, for instance. At 28 years of age, after years of trying to have a normal
life, I had a loving husband and two beautiful daughters, a nice and brand new
place to live my dad had built for us close to him and mom who helped us a lot;
and I had a wonderful job that I liked with a good salary, at a 10 minute drive
from home (where I paid no parking and had good meals); but I lost it all. (except my dad and
daughters), I lost mother first with lung cancer, who had always lived in a
non-smoking home; then my husband who did not survive a head-on collision
trying to save his three girls who were also in the car. I could not work
anymore because I lost my ability to move about and had other health problems. If
everything was going so good with me, why did He allow the bad to happen? If we
were a church going family; and were engaged in a project with young people, a
choir at church where I played the piano and my husband played the drums, I was
also going to get the organ playing position at the main service at church and
now I have even lost the ability of playing it ever more. Why? Why? Why? That is something very difficult to
understand. Nevertheless you can try it, and perhaps you’ll get to even
appreciate the results. Through hardship I have learned that you can fall in a
hole and weep until all of the ones who pass by scatter their dust over your
wailing until you are all covered up and suffocate; or you can try to find a
way out the pit and someone might help you out, even God, if you ask Him to,
which was what I did.
I saw a movie about the life of John Hus who was a priest in
Prague. He used
to preach the truth from the Bible in a language that people could understand
so they could learn. He read: Therefore having been justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). That made
the church angry in the time it was selling the “pardon” to the people. “The
church” burned him alive for his daring to defy it with God’s truth. At the end
I thought God would save him for doing the right thing, and hoped for a Hollywood ending like a great storm which would have extinguished
the fire, but he died singing praises to God. John Hus knew he would soon be
with the Creator and with all the ones who preceded him for having prevailed in
the truth..
In the case of Jesus, “the church” also betrayed Him. He was
doing so much good to the people that they might have thought he deserved not
to die. Nevertheless He did, for that was the reason He came to this world, He even
asked God for forgiveness to the ones who killed Him.
Many people think that if one is “good” enough will not get
into trouble. That is true to what our “doing” is concerned, but when it
concerns the will of God, no matter what, one will have to endure it. Why?
Because God is Sovereign and He does whatever He wants to fulfill His plan. And
His plan is more effective to us, sinners, so we could be saved, eternally. It
is always for our cause. John Hus would have probably suffered more if he had
stayed alive and people today would have not ever known him nor read about him.
In the case of Jesus, He would not have accomplished what he came to this world
to do (the Salvation Plan) and it would have been fatal for us. Which is why He
could say: It is finished.
I do not doubt God’s will is perfect, whatever we might
think. If he allows something to happen, whether it seems bad to us, He does it
so we learn to trust in Him, He who searches the hearts knows what the
mind of the Spirit is because He intercedes for the saints according to the
will of God, And we know that God causes all things to work together for good
to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
(Romans 8: 27-28)
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