Why Does God Allow Christians to Suffer?

The reason For My Faith ^ | 1/29/21 | Chuck Ness

[OneVike]

Yes I did, thanks for the fix

[edie1960]

Thank you, too, FRiend.

I will turn to and take to heart your post, from which I can draw some strength to persevere through these perilous days in our nation and around the world.

Your perspective is on target, yet still leaves me perplexed as to why God’s people are constantly martyred while the evil ones amongst us go unscathed, spreading unspeakable misery.

I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that the ONLY time the truly evil pay is when they face their day of reckoning at the Pearly Gates.

It’s just a shame that we aren’t fortunate enough to witness this consummate display of how God is indeed in control and better understand his plan!!

[frnewsjunkie]

There is one ingredient in our relationship with God... it is trust. Everything God does is good... sometimes we don’t think so.

I have been a Christian all my life.. In those years there were times I’ve been angry at the Heavens. didn’t do me any good but God put up with me in those times.

I have adult children... one of them had special gifts... among other things...he played the piano with feeling... perfectly!

He was my go to son.. he was always there...

He went to NY and the music industry... where a producer cut his career short because he would not bend his beliefs. He left there angry at the world.

He still was my wonderful son but I was very concerned over his anger at seeing his career gone.

years past... he married... hid enjoyment was writing.... he worked hard all his life.

Health and age.. still I was very concerned.. i could not see this son lost to the worldI prayed... long time. One day my prayer was a demand.... dont put me off any longer.. and I quoted promises from the bible..
AND I added ... for the first time...
whatever it takes.

2 months later I got a phone call from my son. “are you sitting down?”
I just came from the doctor and I have leukemia. I am headed to the hospital.

Now after shock... my first rational thought was God can heal him.

So many knew my son.. there was prayer going up all over the U S... All over the world.

We spent the next 2 years doing everything we could to stop the cancer.

One night he was asleep and felt life leave. his body.. he was transfixed to a side of heaven where he saw many loved ones already gone .. he saw some who had messages for him.. he did not want to leave.. but his wife... he didn’t want to leave her..

he was given the option to come back ... he saw the outstretched hands of Jesus..

It changed his thinking changed his heart.. changed his belief... Jesus took the time to visit my son... He could just as well healed him.. He heard my prayer...

But Jesus did not take the cancer... my son died as I and his wife was beside him... I had asked him if he still saw those from heaven.. and he said yes..all the time..

If I could have begged God to please don’t take my son... I would have done anything to keep him.. i gave birth to him.. cared for him... so proud of the man he had become..thankful for all his abilities.. he was liked by everyone... a leader.. and wonderful son.

But God took him.

He answered my prayer.. He did what I asked and for His own reason.. took him.

Now it was my turn to put my faith.. my trust...in my Heavenly Father... He knows what i dont know.. My son is in Heaven... he is with my mother.. my grandmother.. his dad... and a host more.. and probably playing piano as near the throne as he can..

[vpintheak]

Jesus Himself talked about the current ruler of the earth, the devil, as you know.
The Psalmist had similar cries! Why God? Why!?
I agree, and am frustrated that these evil people will only pay in the next life. Here and now, they love it up and create all sorts of evil. Incredibly frustrating, but we do know they will reap their reward.

[boatbums]

My prayers all along this past year's ordeal have been that God brings our nation to repentance and we collectively turn back to Him and He forgives and blesses us once more. We are at a tipping point between the forces of evil and those who choose good to the glory of God. I know I will never give up on this country and I will do all I can to support those within the government who also choose life and what honors our founding principles. I will choose to be a force for good and like my tagline says, I want my life to be a testimony to the value of knowing Christ.

Maybe this is why God is allowing our country - and the whole world, too - to finally see the completely bankrupt ideas of Leftists and Socialism. There isn't a better example of corruption and moral relativism than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Perhaps from the ashes of their administration a newly awakened (in a GOOD way) populace will recognize how good it can truly be to live in a Conservative Constitutional Republic. If not, then I truly believe we are entering into the end times Scripture tells us about - and I am totally okay with God's timing and His will. We are His and our eternal home is with Him.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” (Hebrews 13:5,6)

[boatbums]

Amen!

[Big Red Badger]

“Our Lives,,”
I see the stability of
the Entire Planet
At risk.
“The Great Rest”
is well underway.

[Big Red Badger]

“Then I Perceive Their end”
.
Revelation 19
.
It ain’t pretty

[fidelis]

Joe Biden has had a lifetime of wickedness, corruption, fraud, and vicious dishonesty. And now he has stolen the presidency.

"Call no man happy until you witness his final day." (Solon, Greek philosopher, 638 -559 BC)

[Big Red Badger]

I find it Fascinating that
We may be seeing it unfold
Before our very eyes!
The Trumpets,
Signs in the Heavens and
The Return of the
King of Kings !
.
Amen.

[Poser]

The answer is obvious.

[boatbums]

Thank you for sharing your story about your son. It touched my heart. We must hold on to God's promises to us:

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials so that the proven character of your faith— more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire— may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. (I Peter 1:6,7)

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8,9)

[Truthoverpower]

Life is suffering

- the Buddha. BC. 500

[edie1960]

Bravo to your superb post in response to my comments.

I genuinely appreciate your perspective, analyzing my viewpoints so thoroughly.

Your closing words of “Easy to say but a hard pill to swallow for sure” certainly sums up my feelings if what we are now enduring is God’s plan.

I am linking the accompanying photograph of a three-year-old Donald Trump for you. Ever since I saw this amazing, angelic image of our future President, I just knew that he must have been born to serve a truly SPECIAL PURPOSE!!!
I hope you’ll agree.

https://www.oprah.com/g/image-resizer?width=670&link=http://static.oprah.com/images/tows/201102/20110203-trump-slideshow-young-donald-trump-600x411.jpg

[boatbums]

My deepest sympathy on your wife’s passing. Take comfort that you WILL see each other again - this is our blessed hope.

[OneVike]

Thanks for sharing.

I have lost many close loved ones in my life. Began at a young age when I lost a girl who died from a drunk driver swerving onto the sidewalk. I was with her just a few moments before. I decided to get off the bus a block early as she walked home with a friend.

I learned of her death as I was delivering the papers on my early morning paper route. I was 16.

Through the years I have seen many good friends and loved ones leave. Some saved, sadly most weren’t.

I was dating my wife when the accident we were in put her in a wheelchair. I had chased her for 6 months, then a Month after dating the accident happened. I was married twice before, but those marriages were for lust not love. Had children through them, but nothing was bonding in my heart, because my heart was not with God. I was my own man who had been angry at the world for years. Began as a youngest of 8 children and my father was sent to prison at 7.

Years later I look back and I see a road littered with people I loved who I lost. Yet as I look back I realize that this world is but a blip, and we are all trying to get what we want, when in fact we are all looking for God, our Father. I wrote about an addictive gene we have a week ago. It’s on FR if you want to read it.

We all use various means to fill that void, that why we get addicted to Worldly things like drugs, sex, money, work, etc. etc. etc. Until we find our Father in heaven we will be miserable, even in our moments of joy, with out Him it’s misery.

Shortly after the accident back in “87” my wife and I accepted Christ as our Lord and savior. 33 years later I am still with my wife, When she goes, if she leaves before me, I know she will be waiting for me. I will have sadness for not having her around physically and emotionally, but joy knowing she is with the Lord.

One day I will be home, and I’ll meet my son whom I buried years ago, and my wife. I’ll see Karen again, who’s life was taken at such a young age, but in the meantime I have decided to dedicate what remains of my life to Christ by writing and preaching.

I have many years to make up for, but I know God is with me, and in Him I will be fine. All that is pain, suffering, and heartache are but remnants of what is left of the flesh in me. The older I get the easier it all becomes to ignore as I look to Him. I’m 64, and if my family genetics have anything to do with it, I could be still Freeping when I’m 95.

[edie1960]

Thanks so much for sharing your words of comfort from
Hebrews 13:5,6 with me.

It’s just a tragedy that we apparently are going to have to hit the proverbial ROCK BOTTOM of corruption and moral relativism with Biden and Harris before the populace will wake up. In this case, woke will be to finally come to their senses about how they actually want to live in a free country with inalienable Constitution rights.

Still, that’s an incredibly painful high price to pay!!!!

[OneVike]

Here is the image/

[frnewsjunkie]

I know you learned to trust.. and everything is ok... For me. I renew it frequently..

God took my mother when I was 4..
I would have given anything... my son was my joy.. my financier...my friend.. the one who called every week.. my heart was broken... my husband had died suddenly a few months before the diagnosis... God surely can’t take my son....

The fact I am still sane... is the Lord taketh.. but He never leaves you.. for He knows our heartache... SOMEHOW He fills the void.

[OneVike]

Amen sister, Amen