Topic: Desire...The Hardest Questions Of Life

When misfortune and terrible things happen to us we ask questions. We ask why did this happen? Is there a reason and a purpose for misfortune? Why did these things happen to me or to us? Am I singled out to be the victim of misfortune? How can a loving God allow or maybe even cause misfortune to happen? Can I control more of what happens to me than I want to believe? What can I control? Are misfortunes and terrible things more likely to happen to people who lead lives of sin or lives of obedience to God? Does it make any difference how I lead my life? Will God protect me if I lead a righteous life rather than a sinful life? What is the meaning of all this misfortune? Are we called upon to share the burdens of the weak? Can we share the burdens of the weak without their knowing about it? Does it benefit the weak if we share their burdens in prayer or anonymously and they don't know about our sharing? Is misfortune a test of faith and obedience? Does the Lord strengthen us for a greater purpose by bringing misfortune into our lives? Could the meaning and purpose of misfortune just be shrouded from us? Could it be that God cannot work in our lives the way we demand or want Him to do? Would faith and love of Christ be necessary if He always gave us an answer to every question we ever asked? Could it be that God has a certain procedure or method He must follow in order to work in our lives? Is it within our human power to take a terrible event and use it to glorify God and his son Jesus Christ? We believe God will not forsake us, He will be beside us, around us, beneath us, behind us, before us, and within us...why then, doesn't He protect us from all the harm of life? The rain falls on the just and the unjust. Do those of us who have committed our lives to Christ and live lives of obedience have an advantage when the rain starts to fall?

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