02/11/2024
Many ask the question, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” and I empathize with the question. If there’s a loving God, why does He allow evil?
History paints a clear picture of humanity’s deep brokenness. The sins we commit daily are evidences of this and we have proven over and over that we are unworthy to live. While some question why God allows death and suffering but what I could not understand is why He lets us live despite our sins. So, the more important question for me is not why bad things happen to good people, rather, it’s why do good things happen to bad ones.
What is man that you are mindful of him? Having life like grass, like flower in the field as Scripture say, but when blown by wind quickly withers away. What is man that you take care of him? I can’t seem to wrap my head around this. Why does God, in spite all my iniquity, why have I remained to be a fixture on His mind?
It’s transforming to know God cannot escape His great love for us. It’s one of the strangest things in the world—something I can’t fully understand, all I know deep in my heart is that it’s real.
A.W. Tozer beautifully puts it this way: “God’s love for mankind is a hurt—a wound of the heart. Man’s treachery has deeply wounded Him, but He is caught in the sweet and painful meshes of His own love. Our Lord’s great pain for us compelled Him to come down to earth. Calvary was a pain. But one pain was bigger than the other. It drove Him to endure the little pain. The greater pain was His pain of loving. He loved us and died for us. He endured the pain of death because the greater pain of love betrayed His love for us; and we turned and looked at Him and walked away and cared not for Him. He came, He lived, He loved and He died; and death could not destroy that love. It is still a fixture in His mind. But someday that love is going to be fully satisfied.”
Psalm 8:3-5
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? 5 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.