Questioning God

4. March 2010 by PawBill.

Have you ever asked yourself, “Why does God not reveal himself, or if there is a God, why does He permit needless suffering?

The questions posed are questions a friend recently asked me, but they are also ones that have been asked by man since the beginning of time.  I have answered the questions for myself, but my answers may never satisfy the pondering of many for you see, my answers are based on my faith that there truly is a God and that He gave men of old, inspiration to record His answers in the book we call the Bible.  It remains for us to read, understand and accept by faith His words.

Try explaining the wind or electricity. Yes, there are scientific explanations but most have to accept that they just are what they are; that is, they are forces of nature and nature’s laws established by God, the creator of heaven and earth.

The Bible tells us that God reveals Himself in nature.  As Paul wrote in Roman’s 1:20 (NIV) through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood form what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”  In other words, look at nature and see the majesty of God.

Some would have you to believe all that we know or all that exists just happened. There was no majestic plan, just evolution. Your life has a beginning in the womb; you are born and live until you die.  At death your body decays and that is it.  If there is no life after death, then why prolong your life here on earth if it is not easy and good.

God gave man a spirit and that spirit’s purpose was to enable man to commune with God.  Those who have found God through His Spirit can attest to it.  You too can find God, but you must have faith that there is a God and believe.   It is not easy to hear the voice of God if your mind is cluttered with worldly desires.

God gave man self-will to live his life as he pleased.  However, living your life as you please is fraught with dangers that will cloud your mind from finding God.  History reveals the evil which man can embrace when God is omitted.

God is not sitting in heaven at a control panel following or controlling our ever move.  If God wanted man to do only as He pleased, He could have programmed man’s body, soul and spirit to do just that.  Instead He gave man a body, soul and spirit that he, man, could control at his will.  But, choices can be good or bad and if you just look around, most chose to do the “bad stuff” rather than good. 

Within your body, God imprinted (This is my personal belief.) into your DNA or genome a pattern for achieving a successful and rewarding life if, and only if, you accepted God as your creator, and allowed His Spirit to dwell within your body to provide directions that your body, soul and spirit would willingly follow. 

Man’s free will to call his own shots, so to speak, allowed man to follow other spirits and man’s own humanistic nature to seek the pleasures of life and a lifestyle God told man not to embrace.   Adam and Eve in the garden chose to eat of the forbidden fruit even though God commanded them not to partake. 

By doing what God commanded man not to do, man brought disease and mental illness upon themselves.  Many of these diseases and illnesses changed man’s genetic or DNA structure and were passed on to their children, and on to their children, ad infinitum.  So to answer the question of why does God allows bad things to happen to good people is quite simple.  Man brought it upon himself when they disobeyed, and still disobey, the commandments of God.

Man’s participation in sexual immorality is a perfect example.  Man was told that this was a sin, a devastating health issue, but man refused to accept God’s knowledge and willingly participated in “acts of the flesh” to the detriment of his own body, and in many cases, the damaging of his future children’s bodies.

The young and innocent die or suffer even though they do or did no wrong.  It is not fair, no one can explain it, but all accounts will be settled at the end time judgments of God.  I can only take comfort in the words of Isaiah written thousands of years ago and recorded in Isaiah 57:1-2 (NIV), “The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.  Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.”

Trust the scriptures and accept Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit by faith.  You then will find the “peace that surpasses all understanding,” and you will no longer question God’s sovereignty and purpose for your life and for those you love.

It is all up to you.  He is waiting patiently for your confession, repentance and acceptance of His “Plan of Salvation.”  I pray that you may hear His call.

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