If a loving God exists, why is there so much suffering in
the world?
If a loving God exists, why will he throw millions of people
who refuse to obey Him into hell?
If a loving God exists, why will He allow Boko-Haram snuff
out the lives of 30 innocent young children and their teacher while learning in
school?
If a loving God exists, why does He folds His arms and watch
the serial rape and murder of patriotic Youth Corpers who left their secure
homes to the hinterlands in the service of their country?
If a loving God exists, why hasn’t He killed the over
recycled politicians who keep stealing the wealth of Nigeria day in, day out?
If a loving God exists, why will He allow flood,
earthquakes, tornadoes, thunder, lightning and other disasters to wreck havoc,
pain and trauma to struggling individuals and families who barely have enough
to eat?
If a loving God exists, why does He seem unconcerned with
the slow and steady spread of gay rights all over the world, at the risk of
destroying the sanctity of the marriage institution?
If a loving God exists, why does He allow pain, diseases,
unemployment, poverty, misery, divorce, heartbreaks, death, abortion, murder,
injustice, exploitation, oppression and corruption to pervade the earth?
Lee Strobel, an atheist turned Christian – in his book, The
Case for Faith, gives a succinct answer to these questions. Hear him:
“The answer to suffering is not an answer at all. It’s the
Answerer. It’s Jesus himself. It’s not a bunch of words. It’s the Word. It’s
not a tightly woven philosophical argument. It’s a person. The person. The
answer to suffering cannot just be an abstract idea, because this isn’t an
abstract issue; it’s a personal issue. It requires a personal response. The
answer must be someone, not just something, because the issue involves someone
– God, where are you?
“Jesus is there, sitting beside us in the lowest places of
our lives. Are we broken? He was broken, like bread, for us. Are we despised?
He was despised and rejected of men. Do we cry out that we can’t take any more?
He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Do people betray us? He was
sold out himself.
“Are our tenderest
relationships broken? He too loved and was rejected. Do people turn from
us? They hid their faces from him as from a leper. Does he descend into all of
our hells? Yes, he does. From the depths of a Nazi death camp, Corrie ten Boom
wrote: ‘No matter how deep our darkness, He is deeper still.’ He not only rose
from the dead, He changed the meaning of death and therefore of all the little
deaths – the sufferings that anticipate death and make up parts of it."
He is mocked in the Nigeria, sneered at in Soweto, outlawed
in Saudi Arabia and enslaved in Sudan. He is the One we love to hate, yet to us
He has chosen to return love. Every tear we shed becomes His tear. He may not
wipe them away yet, but He will… Someday!
If you do not have a relationship with Him, this is an
opportunity. Yesterday is a cancelled cheque, tomorrow is but only a promissory
note. Today, the door of grace is still open. Jesus wants to give your life a
meaning. Confess your sins and ask Him into your life. He loves you and always
will.
Kindly share.
Sam Adel’
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