Why Do Bad Things
Happen To Christians?
Does being a Christian mean nothing
bad will ever happen to you or your family in your life time? No, not at all!
This world has been sold into sin by the choice of mankind. There is all kinds of evil and pain in the world. The Apostle Paul said the world holds so many perils, that we are counted daily as sheep for the slaughter.
Satan and his angels roam the earth seeking to destroy anyone and everyone they can. Satan's mission is to cause you to curse God. He wants you to blame God for the bad things that happen in your life. Recently, a man named Bill Weise went to Hell for 23 minutes and came back to confirm in his story this intense hatred the demons and fallen angels have for God and for mankind.
God created the first world which He had to totally destroy because of the evil that was occurring with the fallen angels mixing with the humans. Then in Genesis 1:3 He restores the Earth back into the current creation. The new Earth was perfect until mankind choose to rebel against God and follow Satan.
God had given mankind free will. True love cannot be forced, it must be a choice. Mankind used their free will and created a world full of violence and chaos. The Earth became so wicked that God sent the great flood and spared Noah and the animals. This was the second time that God had shown His mighty power and ownership of the Earth and those things created. Then, in time, the world became evil again. People turned to their own imaginations creating Gods and religions that seem to offer a way to God but that fail to have the solution - reconciling our fallen nature with God.
Today, we have wars, murders, famine, and all kinds of wicked and twisted acts as man follows his fallen nature and Satan continues his mission to destroy the world.
Then, God sent His Son Christ Jesus into the world. Jesus came not to change the world but to offer the solution for mankind. God's free gift of love and eternal life - not by works of goodness but totally through God's love and mercy. A new life for fallen mankind is available by accepting this free gift of God through faith in His Son Jesus Christ. This free gift of God's love is the only one that resolves the missing piece in all of mankind, peace with God. No othe religion on earth offers the solution except the Bible and God's only Son.
God takes the evil that has been caused in the world and makes it work for good. The Bible shows two great stories that explain in detail the evil that is in the world and how God turns the evil into something good. Joseph was a young boy. Out of jealousy, his brothers sold him into slavery. Then to make matters worse, he was thrown into prison. But God had a great plan. He gave Joseph the ability to interpret dreams. In prison he made the connection that would lead him to Pharaoh. Joseph became second ruler in all of Egypt and save both Egypt and Israel from starvation. Joseph had no idea that all of the bad things happening to him would turn out to be so important in the end.
The second is Job. Here Satan is roaming the earth looking for those to destroy. This clearly shows Satan's plan of destruction. However, he cannot destroy Job because Job honored God, walk in His ways, and therefore had the protection of God. As soon as the protection was removed, Satan and his angels did their handy work and destroyed Jobs life. Yet, Job stood strong in his love and faith in God. His family was killed, his wealth lost, his health failed, and he was at the very bottom. Satan knew for sure Job would finally curse God, but he did not. In the end he had twice as much of everything.
God has a plan for ending the rule of Satan and his angels and the pain and suffering of the world. It is written in the Book of Revelations. God is still almighty in power. He could destroy everthing evil at this moment. Only because of His great love for us and the free will He has given mankind, He allows it to continue, giving everyone the last chance to discover and choose His love before its too late. The end of all of this is coming. There will be a new heaven and Earth and there will be no more pain, sorrow, or sinful nature of mankind. Those who have rejected God will meet the same fate as Satan and the fallen angels. He has showed us His incredible love through Christ and has told us His plan in the Bible. Things in this life only last a span of years then they are gone. Sometimes, because of accidents, evil, or illness it ends even sooner. When a child or someone who has accepted God's gift of salvation dies, they go instantly into Heaven. Heaven is real. Even recently, a young boy who died during an operation visited Heaven and saw all of the children who have died or been aborted. Coming back to life later, he had an amazing story to tell. One thing he mentioned, Heaven is preparing at this moment for the end of this world. Eternity is forever - trillions and trillions of years and is coming very soon.
To make this more real consider the following story. The story below is true. 100% truth.
A True Story
I know that whatever loss or situation you are facing is personal and hits your heart but consider Mrs.Tackett who had eight of her children die at the age of two or less. EIGHT!!!! To me, the most tragic event that we have to deal with in life is children who are sick or dying. Talk about someone who seemed to have a right to curse God. Talk about someone who had the right to give up on God, children, and life. – Wow! – However, she never cursed God. Instead, she prayed and believed in His love for her and His divine will for her life. One of her children named Ruby Lee, put her toys up one night, came and sat on my grandma’s lap and told her that she won’t need her toys anymore that Jesus was coming to take her to Heaven to see her brother (Clifford, who have previously died). Ruby Lee died that night. Grandma would go on to have six children who lived. They would make up my mom and my aunts and uncles on the Tackett side of the family.
Then
a voice was heard in my grandma’s living room. The voice said “Hattie, from
this day forward, you will be blessed!” Her daughters still tell the story of
that night and hearing the voice. From that time on, God’s miracles and
blessings followed her. Both of her oldest girls suddenly got sick and Hattie,
was told they would die. They prayed that evening. The same evening the doctors
told her they had somehow completely recovered.
Other miracles would follow. One of
the most awesome miracles was when her water supplied dried up during a
“Great is the Lord,
and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His
holiness, beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is
All of her six surviving children have lived long lives. Grandma lived until she was 83. Her husband lived until he was almost 90.
Book of Job
Here are the verses from Job, Chapter 1: 6-22
Now on a certain day when the sons of God came to stand before the Lord, Satan also was present among them. And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it. And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil? And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain? Hast not thou made a fence for him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth?
But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he blesseth thee not to thy face. Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand: only put not forth thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord. Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother, There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them, And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.
And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire of God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell thee. And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them, moreover they have slain the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee. He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their elder brother: A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell thee. Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head fell down upon the ground and worshipped,
And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.