Why does a sovereign God allow a person of faith to suffer ??

Question

I mean whats the pont ? You already believe in the guy. You know he is sovereign over everything . What is gained by allowing people to suffer ? I think we are all just clay . Some people get the blessings and some people get the curse . Nothing is to be gained and all things are for loss.

Answer 1

Dear Friend,
It rains on the just and the unjust. Being a person of faith gives hope though. God is there to go with you through the storm!

Answer 2

There could be many reasons. Some learn humility, some learn strength, some become an inspiration for others, and some are able to help another because of the suffering. The list could go on. God allows us to suffer so that we can learn. I am glad that you said allow and not cause. God doesn't cause the suffering, that is the result of Satan, sin and human choices. God can take something terrible, like suffering, and make it for a good thing, like the examples I listed above.

if you are a blessing to others, you also will be blessed. If you are a curse to others, you also will be cursed. So you get to choose that portion. Not all is for loss, much is to be gained, maybe you need to look at life with a new perspective with God.

Answer 3

This world is temporary. If you are happy here, yay, celbrate. If you suffer, sorry, but life is nothing compared to eternity. God gives us life and reserves to do with us what He wants. You can see the world any way you want, but that way will be wrong. I feel that I am more aware of God than most because I don't guess what God wants or what God means when He does something. I simply accept that the only thing I can understand about God is that everything He does is beyond our comprehension.

Answer 4

Biblically the answer is in the story of Job.
Satan told God that he make Job curse God, and God said he couldn't. God told Satan to do anything he wanted to Job, except for taking his life. Satan did this, he took everything from Job, except fo his life and wife, Satan left his wife because she kept telling Job to curse God so he could die. Job never even thought once about cursing God. by the time Job was down to nothing, God told Satan he had done enough to Job, and put a stop to it, afterwards, God gave everything back to Job, plus several times more than what he had before Satan got a hold of him.
God is not the one that is hard on us, it is Satan. Question is, do we let Satan win, or trust in God to restore us.

Answer 5

If there were no afflictions and difficulties and troubles and pain, our fallen hearts would fall ever more deeply in love with the comforts and securities and pleasures of this world instead of falling more deeply in love with our inheritance beyond this world, namely, God himself. Suffering is appointed for us in this life as a great mercy to keep us from loving this world more than we should and to make us rely on God who raises the dead. "Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God" (Acts 14:22).

There is no other way. Do not begrudge them. They are hard to bear. I know they are. But if you keep your inheritance before you, and if God gives you the grace to see what Paul calls "the riches of the glory of his inheritance" (Ephesians 1:18), then will you not say with the apostle, "I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us"?

Answer 6

Our faith grows usually MORE during times of hardships as we see the Faithfulness of God steadily there for us, loving us through times of trouble. Oftentimes, when the sun is shining, we take God for granted and His blessings, also, and sometimes forget to rely on Him and forget that He is our sustainer.

Answer 7

Because we still live in the world, where there is sin, and suffering and pain. We are still in the flesh.