First of all, if you are a person who says they believe in God but then have to ask why would God do this thing, then it's time you get to know Him also. It's not just enough to believe that God exists, you must know Him personaly, because He is a personal God! I think it's funny that people will renounce God because of bad things that happen and then they turn around and blame Him for these unfortuneate disasters. Why is that? I guess you have to blame someone, so God is the target for this.

The human mind is funny. Our thinking can get so messed up and what we think is true can be so far off the charts it's not even funny. People just have reasonable deductions and therefore they are fact. But God doesn't deduct anything, He is all knowing, all Omnipotent, all seeing. He has every answer for every question before they are ever asked. Hmm, how did He know that? He's All Knowing!

I heard about something bad that happened to someone recently who doesn't believe in Christ or God so much for that matter. It's more in the sense that He can't possibly be a "loving God." This is the excuse why some people won't follow Him. He's not always a loving God. Well, sometimes as children we made our parents angry and they didn't reward us for our behavior of disobedience. We didn't like the consequences of that either, but we couldn't refuse to believe that our parents existed! This is the same theory with God.

He is our Heavenly Father, He corrects us when we misbehave and we will not like the consequences of His punishments either. My dad use to say, "Because I love you, this is going to hurt me more than it will you." Go figure. But, God says that to us as well. He doesn't wish to harm us. He punishes us for our own good. The reasoning behind all this is so that we will learn from our mistakes and not repeat them!

But it's our choice whether or not to believe God and follow Christ. If we choose not to, then we can't blame God for our mishaps either. It just doesn't make sense to blame someone that doesn't exist. But this is the human mind's way of thinking sometimes.

But to know God is to love Him. God has many attributes to His character. Although Love is one of the main ones, He is also Jealous, Vengeful, Wrathful, but first and foremost, He is Holy and Righteous. Nothing He does is out of anything but love for us. He will not hurt us deliberately without trying to get our attention on Him. We are just stubborn sometimes.

When you truly know God, you will know that He said; "I will bless those who OBEY Me, and curse those who DISOBEY Me. Those who turn aside and go after other gods." (Deu. 11:26,27,28)

I think this is pretty clear. God demands us to obey Him. If we don't...well we pay the consequences. If we turn from Him and seek our own personal pleasures of sex, money, power, fame pride, etc. then this is disobedience in the highest sense of the word. So the question we should be asking is not why is God doing this thing, but rather, what have I done to disobey God? It's time to stop playing the blame game. We need to be responsible and accountable for our misfortune. What have we done? Not why did God do.

Paul explains this very clearly in Ephesians chapter 2. Beginning in verse 3 He says that before we became children of God, "we were then by nature children of (God's) wrath and heirs of (His indignation, like the rest of mankind.)

So, there you have it. Before we got saved through the blood of Christ we were not considered His child. He are subject to His wrath and indignation. We are like everyone else in the world!

Eph. 2:5 Paul goes on to say that God made us ALIVE together in fellowship AND in union with Christ. God gave us the SAME NEW LIFE in which He gave to Christ! ONLY by His grace and mercy (that by the way, we did NOT DESERVE,) that we are SAVED! We are now delivered from judgement and are made partakers of Christ's salvation.

So, unless we come to Christ and are saved by the loving grace of God's mercy, we will not be partakers in all that He has for us. It's a free, unmerited gift that He loves to give anyone who is willing to be His child! He delivers us from judgement that anyone who refuses this gift will have to endure one day. God will judge all non believers and ask them how they used this time here on earth. Did they use it to serve Him or themselves? If the answer was to serve yourself, then you will not like God's sentence. He has a special place reserved for those who did not choose Christ. Once He passes this judgement, there is no chance for getting out on good behavior. It's for time and eternity, because God has given all of us this chance to use our time here on earth to benefit Him, not ourselves.

He has it all spelled out in His Word, the Bible if you don't believe me. Regret is a terrible thing. We say so many times, "If only I knew then what I know now." God gives us His personal promises, both good and bad ahead of time so if we only take the time to read it, know it and act on it, we will never be like the man who went to hell. Once he got there he wanted Jesus to send someone to warn his family because they would not want to be where he was. But, Christ told him in the effect that it was too late. The moral is to believe Christ now, don't push it. Don't ever let it be "too late."

Actually, it's so much easier to believe in a loving God than it is not to believe. Once you experience His loving embrace, you can't deny that He doesn't exist. He sent us His Spirit to live in us and this is to give us the comfort of knowing that He is always with us. It sure beats feeling empty and alone. Face it, as a child of Satan, he has no paternal instincts and he never wanted anyone to feel loved and safe.

Next time you hear someone asking God, if there is a God, why would He let this happen, remember this. If He didn't love us, He just wouldn't care one way or the other. Remind yourself, that you have a part in all that happens to you. Are you doing your part? If not, don't be surprised that God will be doing His part to get your attention.

It's never too late to live today as if you will stand before God tomorrow!

Vivian Gordon writes inspirational and spiritual articles in which to help strengthen the Believer's walk in Christ. They are often taken from today's point of view and used in conjunction with what God says about certain situations and how we are to handle them. There is always an answer for every problem. These articles are not all about asking God "why?" but in finding the answers.