SAVE THE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS FOR HEAVEN

Why do bad things happen to good people? When a business fails, illness strikes, or even at an unexpected death, we all ask some pretty tough questions. Believers for centuries have sought to find a balance between our free will to act and the consequences, between God’s mercy and His judgment.
If we’re honest, each of us will admit to struggling with the subject. We look at each of the speed bumps along life's highway and ask God, “how come?” We want an explanation for each bit of suffering that occurs, even seeking desperately for some sin that caused this ‘punishment”. And how frighteningly easy this is to do when we’re analyzing the tragedy in someone else’ lives. How easy it is then to spot that “sin”, what the sufferer did to deserve it”.
In the end all this mental exercise too often ends with us blaming God, calling Him indifferent or vengeful, instead of looking to Him for answers. If we turned these troublesome topics over to the discerning Holy Spirit who lives in us, we would find greater wisdom, or at least greater peace for those tough questions. Perhaps it’s best that we lean on God’s love, and in the meanwhile, save our most difficult questions for heaven.