Why poetry? As a young woman, I worked as a mental health nurse with elderly people from all over Europe. For many of them, World War Two was a still-living reality. Spoken during afternoon tea,…. When I was growing up in a small West of Ireland town, where death was intermittent and highly visible, the response of the community to the demise of one of its number was always a process of….
Skip to main content Your web browser is out of date. Update your browser. It… Read Full Article. God and the Poet Sally Read Why poetry? Spoken during afternoon tea,… Read Full Article. But God has something far better for us. Though God does use suffering for good, the suffering comes from somewhere. Natural disasters, disease, famine—all of these things exist because of a broken world. But another reality of living in a world corrupted by sin is that we can suffer from the sins of others, whether through violence, selfishness, or injustice.
Romans states,. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. Thus, the idea of the innocent suffering is a false one.
There is no one who is innocent. Even children are selfish; just ask any parent or educator. However, our God is a loving God who wants to be with us. God poured out the punishment for sin upon Jesus.
We can only use these minds to the extent that He allows, and it is, therefore, utterly presumptuous for us to use them to question Him and His motives. We ourselves do not establish the standards of what is right. Only the Creator of all reality can do that. We need to settle it, in our minds and hearts, whether we understand it or not, that whatever God does is, by definition, right.
Having settled this by faith , we are then free to seek for ways in which we can profit spiritually from the sufferings in life, as well as the blessings. As we consider such matters, it is helpful to keep the following great truths continually in our minds. As far as babies are concerned, and others who may be incompetent mentally to distinguish right and wrong, it is clear from both Scripture and universal experience that they are sinners by nature and thus will inevitably become sinners by choice as soon as they are able to do so.
God did not create the world this way, and one day will set all things right again. And this He did for us! He suffered and died, in order that ultimately He might deliver the world from the Curse , and that, even now, He can deliver from sin and its bondage anyone who will receive Him in faith as personal Lord and Savior.
This great deliverance from the penalty of inherent sin , as well as of overt sins, very possibly also assures the salvation of those who have died before reaching an age of conscious choice of wrong over right.
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