If you listen to most unbelievers, their main opposition to Christianity is evil and suffering. They claim our God won't stop it, so He can't be good. Critics say, how can God be good and allow such evil?
The suffering and horrific evils of this world are difficult to understand. If there is an all-powerful God, why doesn't he just stop it? How can He know that his creations are being abused by others that were also created by Him? The children that are in sex trafficking and are raped day in and day out, the children that are starving to death with no food, the children that are dying because they don't have the medicine needed to cure them (many times they die from diseases that are preventable), the people that are suffering in utter pain with cancer and other diseases, the families who lose loved ones everyday to death and children are left without parents, wives without husbands, parents without their children.
The evil in this world is unstoppable. It can never be erradicated. We are evil. All of us.
Many can talk about world peace and everyone has their ideas on how to achieve it.
But there will never be peace on this earth. This earth is corrupt. Why do we seek so much from a corrupt world anyway? Ever think about that? Why are we digging for gold in a barren, dead earth that is doomed for destruction?
Ever notice how millions of humans say they are "good people." I used to say "I am a good person", how can God reject me? We fail to realize that NO one is good, not one! If you think you are saved because you are "good", you are badly mistaken.
As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous— not even one," Romans 3:10
How can WE HUMANS claim to be good and allow such evil? We sit back in our so called goodness and just watch and complain (believers and unbelievers alike). Why don't we act? We sure expect God to act. Maybe we need to look at ourselves. God hasn't left us empty handed on this earth. Look what he has provided- food, water, sunlight, ability to love, resources for shelter, and on and on.
We take and take and don't think we need to give! Maybe we should suffer to eliminate others in their suffering? What would suffering look like to most Americans- less eating out, buying new cars and SUV's, going on vacations, living in smaller homes, not spending millions on church buildings.....
God could ask us the same question- why is their such suffering? Is there not ways that you could stop it? Is your greed more important than ending suffering?
God's people (everyone) are so full of themselves. We want to blame God for everything. Where is our responsibility? Has God not given us resources to use for good? Why are we so quick to blame others instead of looking at ourselves and asking what are we doing?
Look at the world as a whole and really think about it. Has God not provided many resources that we don't use! That we could use to end and prevent evil? Maybe we need to stop accusing God for the evil we create. Maybe we need to stop saying- God, this is all your fault because you aren't ending it. God you allow this (which He does, but that is besides the point for now).
We are so self righteous!!
Most people in my world don't want to die. They want to live forever - death is scary. Why are our lives so short? Why are we a mist and then gone? Why are we like a dying flower in the field? I used to think this way until I realized-
It is a MERCY that God allows us to have short lives on this earth.
Who would want to live hundreds or thousands of years on this earth amongst the pain? I wouldn't. If you were someone who was abused daily and knew it could go on for hundreds of years, it would be the worst news possible. Our cry is PLEASE JESUS, COME NOW!
Remember what God has not taken from us as we live in this world- his loving kindness, the truth that we will never be separated from him (no one can take us out of his grasp), His grace will never end, nor shall his mercy. The Holy Spirit is always with us and will not abandon us.
In due time, God delivers his children out of trouble. "A tree, which in the winter seems dead, revives in the spring. The sun emerges after a storm" - Thomas Watson
We are immortal (we have a beginning) souls that God is gifting eternity in glory and perfection for those who believe in Him.
The truth is God will END EVIL. He already has. Evil has been defeated.
