Do you believe that God is driving your car ? Do you believe that Cancer for a child is the sovereign will of God? I do not.
One of my kids was born with a chromosomal defect. The little one is missing some DNA.
When we found out about this we were devastated as most parents would be.
However, I will tell you this child has been a blessing in so many ways. I have really been able to see the hand of God at work through this situation.
Now to your question....did God intentionally cause this?
No, I don't think so. We live in a world that has been corrupted by sin. Not everything in this world is perfect. A lot of people question God or blame God for the imperfections in this world. In other words, the pot is criticizing the potter.
I know this...God is Sovereign. He is in control.
The verses below from Romans sum up how I view God...and how He is in all things.
26In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;
27and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
28And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
29For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
30and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
33Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;
34who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36Just as it is written, “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”
37But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:26-39 NASB
God works in strange ways. I know He has in my life, but it has taken years, and hopefully still will, to see and understand that for as long as I’m alive.
I often disagree strongly with radio host Michael Medved, yet several years ago he developed a program (which I believe is still available) that follows the flow of God’s influence in human affairs, and particularly across American history, fairly convincingly.
Greater minds that yours or mine have wrestled with those kinds of questions for far longer than both of us have been alive, and you know what?
Nobody has an answer yet.
Either God is sovereign or He is not. Then you can get into the hair splitting of the sovereign will of God and His permissive will. But the long and short of it is, that it hardly matters whether He caused it or let it happen. It doesn’t change the situation or how either I or God are going to deal with it.
What to do with sickness and evil and suffering?
Instead of asking *Why?* ask *How can I best glorify You in this situation I find myself in?*
Then why do we keep telling ourselves that God is in charge? There are so many questions that we do not know the answer of. It is very easy to stop believing in a caring God.