Why God?

Greetings:
Sometimes things get very confusing and we want to simply cry out, “Why God?”.
This past week a wonderful woman of God in the community where I live was stricken by an unusual and rare autoimmune disease that quickly attacks the nervous and reflex system – rendering this fine person unable to walk and on a ventilator in a matter of days.
Hundreds of individuals in our community have joined together in prayer, asking for God's mercy and healing power to be manifest. We remain strong in faith, but here is another instance of where we are seeking God's answer to why this happened.
Unless we have a full understanding as to why God will sometimes allow bad things to happen to good people, we can have our personal faith levels in the Lord shaken to its very core depending on the severity of the storm that may have just struck us,  a loved one or a friend.
The Bible tells us that God’s people can perish for having lack of knowledge – and not having the right kind of knowledge to fully understand why bad things happen to good people, especially to Christians, can cause us to perish in our own personal relationship with the Lord, if we allow it.
We can learn how to keep some of the adversity that may strike us in this life away from us if we can learn how to properly plead the blood of Jesus for deliverance and protection, along with learning how to walk with God’s anointing. If we can learn how to walk with God’s anointing in our life, then we can either keep a lot of these storms from ever hitting us in the first place, or we can quickly defeat them once they do come knocking at our door.
Until we get to the New Heaven and the New Earth after the millennial rule of Jesus from the city of Jerusalem, the curse of Adam and Eve will continue to stay in place on this earth, and as a result, we will all have to face a certain amount trials and unpleasant circumstances.
What gets many Christians in trouble is not having a full understanding as to why these things have to happen to them in the first place, especially since they are now born-again believers who are serving a God who is all-good, all-loving, and all-merciful.
Look what it says in James 1:2 (Amplified): “Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.”
Being joyful in the midst of our trials is difficult to understand. It ranks up there with "in everything give thanks".
We know that God is not trying to frustrate us or defeat us but to conform us to the image of His Son and in so doing He wastes no trial or circumstance, no adversity, no affliction, no sickness, no success, no failure  in achieving his end.  Remember God never commands us to do his will in any area, that he does not also supply us the grace and power necessary to fulfill it
Just study the lives of some of the greatest saints in the Bible, and look at some of the severe adversity each one of them had to personally face in their lives.
The apostle Paul is a perfect example. He literally had to face hell and high water – and that was after he was saved and working full time for the Lord.
The Rev. Joel Osteen recently wrote: “Don't let the burdens of life to weigh you down. We all have tough times, hard things to handle, or heavy loads to carry. Don't allow your problems and circumstances to steal your joy.”
We simply have to develop the mindset that we will to learn how walk through the trials by wearing the whole armor of God, in the presence of God and with God's leading.
If we are willing to take the storm clouds head-on like David did with Goliath and like Paul did in prison, we have no idea how many other people we may be able to save, touch, heal, and deliver.
We must keep the faith, keep our eyes on God and keep on praying, no matter what happens.
Be blessed today.

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