STRENGTH THROUGH EXPOSURE (Why does God allow problems?)
“If the Lord is
with us . . . why has all this happened to us? (Judges 6:11-16)
Gideon’s question
to the angel expresses precisely how we feel at times. If God is love as
declared in 1John 4:8, 16, why does he allow so many bad things?
Central to the
answer is God’s love. He loves us so much that beginning with Adam and Eve He
did not make people puppets with Him manipulating the strings. It’s called free
will. Or would you rather be an android or robot remotely controlled?
Exercising free
will I make good and bad decisions and commit good and bad deeds: Decisions and
deeds that complicate or even adversely affect the lives of others and my own.
Others being no
different than me in the free will scene . . . some even exercising thoughtful
godly love less than I do, we live in chaotic olio.
To help
understand consider parenthood biological or as matter of heart. How protective
are you, to the point of fostering a fragile person in adult body? If you truly
love, the answer is “No”, you allow reasonable exposure to life in desire for
their maturation.
God is love. His
love includes freedom. Isolation is not love. Indeed free will is problematic.
True love always is. EBB4
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