He is not a cruel God

Truth About Suffering

The world came crashing down just like that, you survive with the memory of that heavy pain. still wanting every day for it to be sunshine, but you get brought down again and again because your scary, creepy, weird, ugly, disgusting, and what ever more they say to you. You believe and not believe them, trying so hard to understand why. No hands to reach out, no ears for your shouts, nobody is there for you. All the tears have been shed, what will you do now? Just walking slowly you go up the stairs and looking up form the school building you can see the sky, blue for the first time and oh how the clouds are white and lovely.  How you wish to be free, how you wish to run, how you wish to fly up in that sky. Suddenly, you feel a presence behind you. A hand touching your shoulder, an embrace of warm wind. Tears begin to come out as you turn, and realize you weren't alone all that time. He was with you. When your father and mother died murdered in front of you. He was there when they mocked you and beat you or even tricked you, he kept on holding on to you, hoping that you would come to him and give him your heart. 

 By Hyun Ae Namgung

Why Does God Allow People To Suffer?

Perhaps you though, "Well, what's the point? What does God accomplish by allowing us to suffer?" Very simple: He's trying to tell us something. By allowing people to suffer, God is showing us that SOMETHING IS WRONG. If everything were alright between man and God, then there would be no sorrow and death, because in the beginning there was none. God is showing you every day of your life that man has been SEPARATED from Him because of sin, and that man is destined to an eternity in Hell Fire unless he comes to God for help. The fact that God allows suffering and agony today proves that He will allow it in eternity as well.

God doesn't ENJOY seeing anyone suffer, but He does ALLOW people to suffer for various reasons. If you've never received the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, then God wants you to see your need to do so. Sometimes God has to allow tragedy to enter a life in order to get someone to look to Him for Salvation. As someone has said, "Some people won't look up to God until He puts them on their back." This is sad, but true. There are many people who would still be lost in their sins if God had not brought some tragedy into their life to get their attention.

Do you suppose the leper of Matthew 8:2 would have came to Jesus if he'd been in perfect health? What about the blind man of Luke 18:35? II Kings chapter five tells the story of Naman, the Syrian captain who had leprosy. Had this man not had leprosy, he would never have turned to God. The Bible is filled with cases where God reaches people through suffering. Nebuchadnezzar didn't fear God until God humbled him by making his spend seven years of his life on his hands and knees like an animal (Dan. 4:30-37).

Sometimes He will even use the tragedy of one to bring OTHERS to Christ. Such is the case with Lazarus in John chapter eleven. Lazarus was very sick, but before he ever died Jesus said that his sickness was "for the glory of God" (Jn. 11:2-4). Later, in John 11:45, we read that ". . . . many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him." We also read in John 12:11 that many believed on the Lord Jesus Christ BECAUSE OF LAZARUS. Had Lazarus not suffered and died, these people may never have come to know the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, God was in complete control. Jesus KNEW that Lazarus was sick, but He chose not to go and heal him (Jn. 11:6). He had a REASON for the sorrow and death in the family of Lazarus. No one suffers in vain. God always has a reason, and sometimes He is trying to show someone their need to receive the Lord Jesus Christ. Could this be true in your own life? Think about it. Could the Lord be convicting you of the fact that you are a sinner, and you need to be saved? 
 By James L. Melton, 

 from : http://www.biblebelievers.com/jmelton/suffer.html

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