this does not just mean the ill in pain suffering horrbile untreatable paind but peope who have life that really are horrible like a guy in a wheel chair cant talk cant have sex looks odd no friends no job and no hope of ever having a job ever or a wife or kids or a vaction or a cure . why will god let that man just suffer more and more each day.
2007-01-20 08:01:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because there is value in suffering. It humbles us, number one. It purifies us of selfishness. It conforms us into the image of God. Who do you think will be treated better on Judgment Day, the guy whose life never went wrong and had every success, or the person who patiently endured suffering for the sake of God?
I find I tend to forget God when I don't suffer. Suffering is a reminder of my true place.
2007-01-20 08:32:52 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God gave you life and your life is his. (Psalm 100)
Death is the end to everyone life. Does it matter what people can or cannot do since we all die. From what we see (the observable world), there may be many things we see that make no sense (for example, universal suffering).
We are here and how were treat one another does matter. Your focus is with sick (you left out the dying), but maybe you should focus elsewhere. You mention what the sick failed to have (or never have) but that may applied to the healthy as well.
We are born, we will die, and we may be sick along the way. Is that all? When survivors of the Holocaust left the camps, the camps never left the survivors. They tried to figure out why they survived while so many died. They tried to search for meaning for their personal experience and the world around them. Some concluded the man always search for meaning.
Answer: Our search for meaning is not only based on what we experience but also based on our hope. Faith, hope, and love are usually quoted, but is it your faith and the hope that you have that will lead to your meaning.
2007-01-20 16:33:15 · answer #2 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry dear. I know it's hard to look out in life and see the suffering. Please don't think that God doesn't see it. He loves everyone, and cares for everyone and sees this kind of suffering.
The world is the way it is because of sin. Man was not designed to be sick or crippled. When sin came into the world, diseases, violence, all of it, entered and this is the result.
This life is very short compared to all of eternity. You know, it's a bit ironic, that a person in a wheelchair who knows the Lord as their savior is better off that a healthy 20 year old with a million dollars who will die not knowing Him. One day all things will be put right. What is most important is who you say Jesus is.
2007-01-20 16:30:20 · answer #3 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hate to burst your little bubble but people who happen to be in a wheelchair don't want to die simply because you cannot understand a life different from yours.
2007-01-20 16:05:49 · answer #4 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just because people are confined to wheelchairs doesn't mean that they are unhappy and want to die. God gives us trials and puts roadblocks in our way so that we can overcome them, and learn from them.
2007-01-20 16:21:19 · answer #5 · answered by ~*Bug*~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't presume they want to die youngblood. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
2007-01-20 16:19:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋