Why so much trouble in this life?

Is life just random and some are lucky while others are not?

Is God to blame?Is it satan?Why so much suffering, pain, loneliness

separation, and rejection?First I think we need to get something straight in our minds right away

1. God is all powerful 2. God is all knowing 3. God is in control

4. God is good5. Satan is horrendously evil and he is the

god of this age, = (world system that is so messed up).

6. Satan is on God’s leash and the outcome is not uncertain. The lake of fire is satan’s end.

7. You are not God. You are a very limited human being in knowledge and experience.a. Have you been to the ends of the universe?b. Have you seen all the reaches of space?

c. Do you know what the smallest particle of matter looks like?

c. Does anyone even know where our DNA receives the programming to do what it does? d. Can you explain the human brain with all it’s thoughts, emotions, senses and how it all came together?e. How does the human eye transform light waves into color? How does it receive information upside down and then the brain sees it right side up?f. How is it that your mind flashes a signal to move an arm, after you flashed a signal that you wanted to move it?

g. How is it that the entire universe, the galaxies and our own solar system have an order to it? Who put that into motion?

The bottom line here, is just because we don’t believe something or cannot understand something, does not make it false.

We are not God. Some of us have never even been out of the country!

What do you know?

The Word of God can help us here but just know this, that before you blame God about anything, remember this, He is the one who at the beginning said, “it is good”.

What we do know is because of the fall of man the world is now corrupted. Men are basically evil and trouble will come.

So what are we to do ?

Job 5:7) Yet man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

8) “But as for me, I would seek God, And to God I would commit my cause–

John 16:33) “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

James 1:2) My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

3) knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

What we have here is not a prescription to be without trouble but one that when it comes, we know Who to go to and what to remember.

2 Corinthians 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

4) who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

1 Peter 1:6) In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,

7) that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Romans 8:21) that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

22) For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

23) Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

24) For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

25) But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

Romans 8:38) For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

39) nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.