PROVERBS 20:24
"The Lord directs our steps, so WHY TRY TO UNDERSTAND everything along the way?
How many times have you heard people on television or in real life ask the question, "why did God allow bad things to happen to good people"? There are many other examples of the same question asked in a different way. If God is a Good God, how can He allow bad things to happen?
What everyone wants to do is question God and what He allows to happen or even cause. We must remember we do not have the mind of God and we can not see the end from the beginning!
What we perceive of as bad is in fact good for those who love the Lord. To be absent from their body is to be present with the Lord. How bad can that be, to be in Heaven and perfection with the Lord. So the question should be, why does God allow good people to come home to heaven?
Here on earth we tend to only see things in the horizontal plane. That is to say, we believe that there is a beginning and an end that is measured in time. Lives are like a line in time and when they end many believe that is all that there is to life. God however, sees things in the vertical plane and in a different dimension than we do. He is eternal and sees everything at once, from the beginning to end of every ones life. Then He promises us heaven and eternal bliss and peace. We must remember we are pilgrims just passing through this life and this is not our home or our destination. That is why it is confusing to non believer's and even a question to some who believe.
You do not have the mind of God and you will never understand His ways with your human mind. His ways are not our ways. What you have to do is trust that a God who is infallible and Omnipotent and is not caught in the horizontal plane, has the power to do the right thing for everyone. So if a tragedy happens, of any kind, and people ask why a good God would allow this bad thing to happen. Tell them Good is only in the mind of God and that although we are in a limited time dimension, we should always look up, for our redemption draws near. What we see as bad is not always so. We can not have God's perfect mind and sometimes the best idea is to just trust God. WHY TRY TO UNDERSTAND. Trust God He always does the right thing!
