BUT WHY? .....Why problem, pain, delay after being a Christian

Why does God allows His children to pass through difficulties? Why does He make them go through problems, pains and even persecutions? "God is almighty and loving, and so why does He allows me to go through all these painful and problematic situations after I have surrendered my life to Him, after I am living to please Him, but why?"

I don't know if such questions have ever come through your mind before, yes they have ran through my mind several times, and it will become more hard when you are right in such tough situation. Why will God wait that long before He will answer? Why will He allow all these to happen before He will come in?

In the Bible, we read about the children of Israel, how God took them through wilderness for complete forty years, "And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness..." Deuteronomy 8:2. Why did God allow His children to pass through wilderness and waiting experience? Why can't He just do it once without the stress of waiting?

JUST FOR GOOD
These series of questions became tough with me personally, until God Himself helped me to see His reason through His word. The scriptural and simple answer to all the above questions is: IT IS FOR YOUR GOOD. God permits you to pass through pain so that He can do you good at the end, simple!

GOOD CERTAINTY
When you become a child of God through genuine salvation in Christ Jesus, you may not know everything the future holds, you may not know where God is taking you to, you may not know when rapture will take place, you may not know when you are going to die, you may not know where God want to use you, but one thing is certain, and that is, everything will work together for your good, as long you love God!

Yes, the pain, the problem, the delay, the persecution, and the present perplexed situations, including your past mistake - all are meant to work together, in combination for your good in your new life in Christ Jesus. Here is what the scripture says, "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28.

FROM WILDERNESS TO WONDERS
God allows us to pass through wilderness so that we can end up in His unlimited wonders. When you keep loving and obeying Him even in the wild wilderness, He Himself will turn the wilderness of your life into wonder to people, and you will then become a sign and wonder for your generation. No wonder the people of old stayed faithful to God even in the wilderness, no wonder Job waited on the Lord even when his life was turned to dark wilderness, he said, "If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, Till my change comes."

And so what about you? Will you wait faithfully and godly in the wilderness of life till God comes to turn your wilderness to wonders? Or will you wander about into sinful options and suggestions before your divine change comes?

CAN ANY GOOD STILL COME?
Sometimes we find ourselves in such a terrible situation that we think if any good thing can still come out of it. Some cases are humanly beyond retrieve that we think nothing good can ever come out of it. In such a case, we just need to go back to the Bible and answer two questions from Romans 8:31,"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"

You need to answer these:
1, If God is for you, who can be against you?

If God is for you, who can be against you? If God is for you, the God of heaven and earth, if He is for you, what time can be against you? If God who controls the time and universe is for you, what sickness can be against you? If God is for you, what regulation of system can be against you? Your answer to this will help your faith in God.

2, He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

And, if God could bring good thing out of the death of Jesus Christ, how will He not bring good thing out of your situation and family? The death of Jesus is the most terrible crime ever committed in the history of humanity. Can you imagine the only sinless Man ever lived on earth was condemned and crucified? How terrible and horrible! But God brought about the greatest goodness of Goodnews to mankind through the most horrible event. So, if you have accepted the Goodnews into your life, then relax, your situation is not as horrible that God can't bring about good thing; since you have the Goodnews of Jesus Christ in your life, everything is certain to work for your good.

STAY FAITHFUL
What matters to God is not how you feel in the wilderness but how you are faithful to His word, His will and His work. Do not allow any situation to make you compromise the standard of holiness of God, do not yield to sinful suggestions and demands because of your passing situation, and do not stop working for God because of present situation.

Are you a faithful child of God? Your answer will not assure God until you are in tough situation. God will want to test our faithfulness to Him, so sometimes, He allows tough situations so we can prove our love and faithfulness to Him. God would allow unpleasant situations and see if you will stay faithful to His word, and if you will still love working for Him. He did that to Abraham and He confirmed his love and faithfulness.

At the end of their forty years wilderness journey, God revealed the actual reasons He made the children of Israel to experience the wilderness journey, "who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end" Deuteronomy 8:16.

God will allow your pass through situations to (1) test your love and faithfulness to Him, and (2) to do you good at the end if you stay faithful.

CONCLUSION
Beloved, instead of you to wander why God allows unpleasant things, you should begin to walk faithfully with God; do not waste time to ask God "why" but rather ask Him "what" and "where"; what He wants you to do and where He wants you to go, no matter what; His grace will hold us through.

It is easier said than done, it is easy to preach than to practice in a practical situation, yet, the easiest is to trust and obey even in a troublesome time, there is no other means. Whatever the case, let's walk with God by faith, let's wait on God faithfully and let's work for God fervently.

PSALM 66:10-12:
For You, O God, have tested us;You have refined us as silver is refined.11 You brought us into the net;You laid affliction on our backs.12 You have caused men to ride over our heads;We went through fire and through water;But You brought us out to rich fulfillment.

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