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“It makes absolutely no sense to me.”

It doesn’t to us. And somehow we need to be satisfied with that. (See Job).

There was a husband/wife church youth leaders and their baby that were killed here (Washington State) when a huge chunk of concrete from a bridge landed square on their truck as they were driving by, killing them all instantly. One second later and it would have crashed to the ground behind them.

Their pastor said “What is there to try to understand? There is no understanding. But God is Good. All the time.”

There is a gal in our church that our pastor used in a sermon. She has had a rough go of it, and numerous set-backs in life, and now is carrying for her invalid children.

I forget how the sermon all went, but not that she had given up in praying for relief, but that she somehow figured that this was her lot in life, and that she was to be faithful in it. And that her “justice” or relief (or whatever) would not be found on this side of death.

I’m not sure I have that kind of faith. And I think that is the point - it is about faith, in the absence of things not seen.

We need to remember the parable of the talents.

It could be that those of us who are faithful in the midst of trials that we have no understanding of, will receive our recompense on the other side.

Not only is God good, but He's also just, and justice will be done.

Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

When I was wrestling with God over something and thinking that it just seemed so pointless, He gently reminded me that *Nothing I do is pointless.* (In those words)

That comes back to me frequently when I start on the questioning...... again.....

Yes, I was familiar with the story as I live n
in the area. That one made no sense either.

I’m getting really frustrated with life. The adage “God is good” is starring to lose any significance for me. If He is so good, why doesn’t He do something?

Of course, it could very well be that God is good, and I’m the one that’s no good.

We, the members of the Church the Body of Christ, have the great privilege of being "blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ"(Eph. 1:3). We have a perfect position in Christ, and high and holy calling that could serve to puff us up with vanity if God did not allow us to be visited with bodily affliction (2 Cor. 12:7). In the meantime, while we remain bodily on this earth, we are assured by God: "My strength is sufficient for thee: for My STRENGTH is made perfect in WEAKNESS" (2 Cor. 12:9). So what is the purpose of these afflictions? They are blessings in disguise that serve to draw us closer to God.(2 Cor. 12:9,10).

Those people who were healed by Christ and Peter and the 11, would undoubtedly entered in to kingdom and have gone on living, had the Messianic Kingdom been established, but Israel rejected Christ as Messiah. So what happened to those who had been healed? They all died, of course. It wasn't because Christ, or Peter and the 11 had failed that those they healed did not remain alive and well; it was because the kingdom was refused and "this present evil age" settled upon the world. This "present evil age" that God is using to declare reconciliation to man by the finished work of Christ. While this earth is presently evil, death and suffering go on. But God has promised us His grace and our salvation through His Son. He hasn't promised us health, or wealth, or riches, those are things of this world. What He has given us is in heaven. Where we are blessed with all SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS in heavenly places.