This is a question that has long been asked by Christians, Jews, atheists, etc. etc.
Good people do good things so it’s expected that they receive good from their good deeds and behavior. Why then, do we see good people being persecuted for their goodness or good people being shot down at different parts of the world? These people haven’t committed a sin or have they? And even if they were sinless does that excuse them from death because they are perfect?
Death is a bad thing and part of life so why would a good person die? Today we will dive into the topic as to why bad things happen to good people.
Read Job
Like many of life’s deepest and most interesting questions, the answers are found in the bible.
In the book of Job, Job directly asks God why bad things happen to good people.
Back story time: Job was a righteous, perfect, and good man.
Job loved God and eschewed evil.
Then one day, Satan goes to God and asks him to test Job. Job was a wealthy man and so Satan said that Job was only good because God had been good to him.
So God let Satan test Job. God let him test Job because of his own holy purpose and it was so.
Satan took all of Jobs belongings away in a tornado, even his children were taken away. The only thing left was Job and his wife. So job became depressed, but he never once looked away from God and he followed God all the way throughout the worst of the trials. Until one day, he said that he had enough and so he asked God and demanded that God answer him.
Job had been good and he claimed that he didn’t deserve it. So God came to him in a whirl wind and took Job all throughout the universe and asked Job questions regarding why the world is the way it is.
Job of course couldn’t answer because Job’s vision of the world was only minute limited so he could not answer God in the way that was correct. At the end of the story, God restores what was Job’s and gives him even more than what he had before and Job lives a long happy life full of God and he lived to be 120. The moral of the story is that, God’s world is perfect, it’s wild and beautiful, it’s dangerous and amazing at the same time. And God never answers directly why bad things happen to good people but for our limited point of view, it’s just best to trust in God even though the worst is happening and it seems like God is nowhere to be found.
Personal Story
I remember back when I was a J.R. in high school, I thought I was the big hot shot of the school. I had girlfriends, I was known as the guitar man, I had a few scholarships lined up for me to go to college and everything was going just the way it should.
Until about mid-way, I went to a mental hospital and at that moment, everyone left my side. My friends wouldn’t associate with me, this girl that I loved left my side, and I was just alone I didn’t care about guitar anymore, in a way I fell into a depression because I stopped caring for myself. But I never gave up on God and what he was doing in my life.
Throughout all of that Chaos, I actually …. Got closer to God. When I came back from the mental hospital it’s like I found who I was and who I was wasn’t anything weak but strong, I was a Christian. That’s who I am and if anyone tries to tell me otherwise then that person wouldn’t be my friend.
God became my best friend, not my mom, or my friends or my teacher. But God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit came into my heart and made me whole for the first time in a long time. And I left a lot of bad habits. I quit looking for girls, I stopped listening to the world’s music, I started to treat myself as a Christian. I started getting good grades. And I realized that I was actually feeling better about myself. Throughout all of that pain and months on the couch, throughout all of that suffering, I became stronger, not because of me, but because I had God now. So, Trust in God and let him lead you the way, always pray and read your bible and he will manifest himself unto you. Thanks all of listening may God bless you all. –German Gonzalez
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