“Why do bad things happen to Christians or good people?” I have asked this question over and over. Others have asked me. Well now I have an easy to understand answer that I believe God placed on my heart. So here is my answer to the popular question:
The Bible tells us that:
1. God created the beginning with the end in mind.
2. Before you were even in your mother’s womb, God knew you and had a plan for you.
3. Satan started out as an angel, but got caught up in pride and wanted to be God, so he got kicked out of Heaven.
4. Satan came to steal, kill, & destroy. God came so that we may have life.
5. God’s will for us is to be to seated at the right hand of God. We are created to be His children.
Now with all of that being said. We have an enemy that wants to be as big as God. God has a plan for us or a job for us to do. Our end prize is to be seated with Him on high. Well think about it. If Satan is going for the same prize then don’t you think he is going to try to throw a stumbling block in your path? He will throw out hurts, rejection, poverty, sickness, etc… to cause you to fall off the course that God created you for in order for you to not get the prize he was denied. The devil wants to see you fall. He doesn’t want you to win. So that is the “Why”
Now you can look to God and be thankful that He created the beginning with the end in mind. Before those hurts and pains were put on you, He knew about it. He did not cause it. So He provided a source for you to be free and overcome those things. God gave his one and only son, Jesus, so that we could overcome the enemy and receive our prize. We can receive our eternal gift of sitting at the right hand with Jesus.
I think about the “Little Rascals” movie. The bad kids stole and messed up the good kids soap box racer. They threw out every obstacle they could in order for the good kids to lose in order for them to win.
We are running a race whether we want to admit it or not. You may be off course or racing against the wrong thing. But ultimately there is a prize at stake. God is holding that prize for us. So if you fall, Get up and keep running the course set before you.
