The question we all ask ourselves....Why does God let us suffer?

Question

Everytime something bad happens and we feel like we're gonna cry, we ask ourselves a burning question: Why does God allow us to suffer?

Answer 1

If we do not suffer how will we know the difference between good and bad times, everyone suffers, and Jesus said in the final days before his return it will seem like Godless times no one knows what Gods big plan is but we sure know the outcome and the blessings that come with. We suffer now because the world is becoming more Godless every day and don't forget It's satan that makes us suffer not God

Answer 2

This does not deserve a short pat answer. and here is a entire conference on suffering and the sovereigninty of God on this subject. There are many reasons one being God might be using suffering to hammer us out like a diamond cutter might to make us an object of glory for him, it might be to stretch us to make us something better. There are many reasons.

I loved the talk by Joni who was a para palegic for 38 years in this suffering conference and i highly recomend it. The DVD is here at a proice but I think you can download the talks in some form printed or audo possibly for free
see www.desiringGod.org

someday there will be no more suffering, pain, sickness or death and God will wipe every tear from the eyes of the redeemed
and you know if God wipes the tears away, the pain will be gone forever

Answer 3

From the book "The Plain Truth About God-101" (what the church doesn't want you to know!)
It may be hard to accept but there is a lot of truth in this silly line from a movie;
“I look after the big picture, son.”
Said God!
“Life is a crap-shoot.”
“You take your chances like everyone else!”
-George Burns as God-

or;

>Does God control everything?
Obviously not, at least not in any way that we as mere mortals can see!

>Is there a God?
Look around you, there has to be!
(This is the only thing I personally apply the term “believe” to.)

>Can we petition the Lord with prayer?
Obviously not! -Otherwise I would be rich, famous, handsome, and in perfect health. -So would everyone else!

>Is there a purpose to it all?
There has to be! The mere fact that we believe in a Supreme Being and wonder about the purpose of the cosmos pre-supposes that there must be a plan. This does not mean that we are in any way smart enough to start second-guessing God as to what that Plan is!

Answer 4

Ask it this way:

What does God maybe want us to learn from this suffering?

Will that lesson make us a better person? A wiser person? A kinder person?

And while you're at it, DO NOT mistake natural disaster for God's Will. Only insofar as He set up the original parameters of Beingness and the laws under which it all operates can He be blamed for that.

DO NOT mistake suffering as a result of your own bad decisions or impulsive, thoughtless actions as being from God either. You did it. You pay for it! Hopefully, you learn better.

And since ALL suffering comes under the heading of either natural or manmade, where does that leave God? OUT OF IT, dearie. Next time you're hurting, why not bring Him INTO it and let Him help you through it?

Answer 5

God is not the reason for our suffering. Why does everyone blame him for the bad that comes into our lives? We have to take responsibility for our actions at some point.
Just remember God doesn't give us anymore then we can handle and he is always there to comfort us and he is not the reason for bad choices. Sometimes good comes out of a bad situation. Just keep that in mind. All things happen for a reason.

Answer 6

God did not let us suffer..He love every creations He made and He wants them to learn that everything does not come so easy..He wants us to learn to be more humble and to be thankful for all the test of suffering He made for us as at the same time it teaches us to be more spiritual stronger and think that God will never forget us.. that there are so many people out there are much more unfortunate than us.. All sufferings will always come and go..we just have to endure with it..and move on..

take it as a challenge and God always will reward to those are patients enough..if its not in this world..it might be in Heaven..

Amin.

Answer 7

Because other wise we would becomes puppets to God, and since day one, God has given us choices. God would never interfere in our lives, unless we make Him our Lord. But still when something bad is going to happened in the word, that is because people are not paying attention and continue they iniquities. I not saying that they all are, but only God knows, all is happening it is written in the word of God, people are just to blind to se, because they love the world more then what they love God.

Even if God would had put a stop in to wrong, people will still complain no matter what. What happened to the people that Moises took out from Egypt, they were save from slavery and still they were complaining when God delivered them from Egypt's Missouri.

The same was is happening today, the word of God never changes, people will always complain and grouch about everything.

Answer 8

In my catholic faith, this has been called the "mystery of suffering." Why we suffer isn't hard to explain - in a world where anything is able to happen, sometimes the things that happen are awful, soul crushing experiences.

There are some answers that go from semi-satisfying to downright glib to the challenge of suffering. One common argument is that God is testing us, but I consider that a fairly crude argument, because that would make God like a kid frying ants with a magnifying glass. A better argument I suppose is "free will" - if God took a hand in every unfolding event, we might not suffer, but we also might not ever experience joy or happiness - so in order to have the possibility of joy and happiness, we must admit the possibility of despair and sadness.

St. Paul says, "In my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church." (Col. 1, 24.) This hints at the closest thing we can come to a real answer.

God perhaps lets us suffer in order for us to unite ourselves to the saving suffering of Jesus.

"Blessed are those who mourn, for one day you shall laugh," the Luke version of the beatitudes tells us. In order to get to the blessed final day when "He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death or mourning" (Rev. 21:4) we must pass through the days when there are such things. We cannot know how potent the miracle of their passing is if we are not aware of the sadness and tragedy of their presence in our lives.

Sadness also offers us the opportunity to love and be compassionate - to express the best qualities of being human. Because you know what it is to suffer, your heart is moved to pure love when you reach out to someone else who is suffering. Could you reach out in true love for a fellow human if you couldn't truly understand their experience of suffering?

But ultimately we don't know why.

In the book of Job, great misery is visited on the protagonist. God himself does not bring this misfortune, it is important to note. Within minutes, Job learns that he has lost all his possessions, and all his family. Later, he falls ill, but says, “We accept good things from God; and should we not accept evil?”

But Job does not understand why he has suffered – he is told by his friends that he must have done something wrong, but he can find no explanation in that. He searches through his memories, and cannot find an instance where he “allowed the eyes of the widow to languish while I ate my portion alone,” or “rejoiced at the destruction of my enemy or exulted when evil fell upon him.”

Why then, why? “Of all my steps I should give him an account,” Job says, wishing that his accuser would “write out his indictment.”

What did we do to deserve it? Sometimes nothing, nothing at all. Then why?

The problem of theodicy is that there really is no easy answer; our sufferings are not always a calling to account. “Who is this that obscures divine plans with words of ignorance?” God asks in Chapter 38. “Where were you when I founded the Earth? Tell me if you have understanding” pretty much sums up his response. The scope of all things is too great to grasp. Our misfortune is not always oppression, and it certainly is not divine oppression!

Answer 9

Suffering brings humility. God doesn't cause suffering . Sin does that. When we stray from God we suffer because we think we don't need God in our life. We turn to sin instead which always brings trouble and pain. Most people only turn to God when they're in trouble. He's always there for us even though we turn our backs on him. He is a merciful God and will forgive and restore you everytime.

Answer 10

Because of sin, we are witnesses of the reality of sin and what it does. That is why God had to die to redeem us and he will come again and save us and rid the universe of sin, sinners and the devil Satan forever.

Before there was sin, no one knew really what it was it was just a bad thing. But sooner or later it would arise and Lucifer iniated it and therefore in God's infinite wisdom sin is allowed to be played out so that the character of God will be seen and that all the warnign before was warranted.

Sin will never again rare its ugly head because God will not allow it again and we wont either because we see what it causes.

Even God had to pay for sin by the death of His only son, which was no ordinary death - no man or woman on earth every had that death - he died for the world everybody who died already died for themself.