Why Didn't
God make everything perfect just like Him?
Why Does
God allow wrong in the world?
Why Do Bad
things Happen?
When
God created the world He did make it perfect, and He made mankind in His
own image - we look like Him. When the devil came up to
Eve and encouraged her to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge, he
infected her with thoughts (seeds) of doubt. The devil has infected the
whole world through this - God created people to be good but however we
try, sometimes we wind up doing bad things.
So
why doesn't God make us behave "right", or keep us from hurting ourselves
or others, or take us out of circumstances that hurt us?
God made each of us unique. Look at a flower
garden. Visualize the different colours of the flowers, the shapes and
sizes of the plants. Breathe in the different perfumes. Look at even one
kind of flower, say the rose (I love roses). Each rose has its own characteristics
- its colour, shape, perfume, time it blooms, etc. - all of these things
make it different to the next rose, but make it unique and special to the
gardener who tends it.
Each
one of us is a "rose". We are all individual - unique. We have our own
characteristics. We don't just look different but on the inside are different
too! Our thoughts and feelings, our personalities are different. Why didn't God make us the same? Look at
the garden. See the variety of colour and plant - I'm sure that is how
God views us. He likes the differences, it makes each
one of us special to Him.
So if we are so special
to Him how come bad things happen?
Why doesn't God keep
us from getting hurt?
If
God did this He would NOT be letting us be us - letting us "do our own
thing". He could stop us from getting into potentially
harmful situations but then He would be controlling us. When God made us
He gave us a free will. He didn't want puppets!!! If God controlled out lives like that,
then we would be little better than puppets. He made us so we could choose
who we are and what we do. God loves our uniqueness but part of this is
our choosing the kind of people we want to be. In letting us do this He
has to ALLOW us to make wrong choices if we want to. If He didn't allow
us this option then we really aren't free to choose are we?
God
is there with us in all things that we go through, whether we choose wisely
or not. I'm glad my Father in Heaven chose to make me like this - that
I can choose how to live, even choose to follow Him or not. Don't blame God for mankind's poor choices.
He loved you enough to make you unique and give YOU the ability to choose
how you live your life.
When
God created the world He did make it perfect, and He made mankind in His
own image - we look like Him.
Want
to know more about God?
flower
garden. Visualize the different colours of the flowers, the shapes and
sizes of the plants. Breathe in the different perfumes. Look at even one
kind of flower, say the rose (I love roses). Each rose has its own characteristics
- its colour, shape, perfume, time it blooms, etc. - all of these things
make it different to the next rose, but make it unique and special to the
gardener who tends it.
