If God would, we wouldn’t …

“Why?” is the most common question asked of God.

Why does God allow war, hunger, hurting, death, disease, illness, divorce, pain, suffering, injustice, bad things to happen to good people while good things happen to bad people, poverty … and on goes the list.

Chances are, you’ve had a “Why?” of your own for God.

So just imagine that after thousands of years of hearing these questions, God decided to answer every prayer. Suddenly, God decides to intervene and eliminate pain, suffering, disease, and all the other stuff that’s really bad.

What would happen then?

Would the lost suddenly bow in grateful adoration to their Creator?

Would the antagonist suddenly become an evangelist?

Would those who reject God now suddenly surrender their lives to Him then?

No.

They’re human beings. They would continue in their sinful ways free of death, disease, pain, suffering, and so forth, all the while continuing to reject God. And then, as they continue in sin, the results of sin would again break what God had just fixed.

There is coming a time when all tragedies will be no more. But at that time when God puts an end to all earthbound brokenness, He will also address His standing in the lives of every human being.

Until then, He allows the brokenness we have brought into His world to play out while providing to those who love Him the grace to endure.

Scotty