WHY DOES NOT GOD STOP THE TROUBLE?
This question is more in the minds of thinking people than any other. The problem of the innocent who suffer for the guilty; the apparent hopeless confusion of world affairs; the collapse of any standard of right or wrong --- all cause a great number of people to doubt God, even to question His existence.
It seems clear that when you ask why God does not stop the trouble His ability is not in doubt. It is, rather, that we question why he does not act. So, then, why does God apparently do nothing to stop the ”trouble”?
Think a minute, what is it that He has to stop? It is people. It is hatred, violence, lust, selfishness, jealousy, dishonesty and a whole host of other things. Very well, then, the question to us is “Are you prepared to let God stop these things in you?” Yes, that is where the rub comes. The whole issue is essentially a personal one. What about your selfishness, your jealousy, your sin? To be brutally frank, if you are not prepared for God to start with you, you can never again ask the question “Why doesn’t God stop the trouble?”
There is another thing to consider. Instead of sitting afar off, criticizing God for his negligence, we need to consider some sobering facts. It is certain that one day God will stop it all. He will break into world affairs in the person of his son to destroy everything that is evil in the world. If we refuse to be separated from that which God must judge, namely the sin in our lives, then, inevitably, we will be judged with it. If God appears to be silent now, it is because he loves to deal with men in mercy instead judgment. He is giving us all more time.
And, when you ask, “Why doesn’t God stop the trouble?” have you ever thought about the Cross? Why didn’t he stop it there. Why didn’t God deliver his son from murder at the hands of wicked men? There is only one answer to that: “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.” (Isaiah 53:5)
God allowed it in order that the judgment of human sin should be borne at the Cross. He is, therefore, now able to deal with us in mercy because judgment has been met. Yes, all will be judged. The only difference is that all who put their faith in Christ, crucified and risen, are able to say that judgment for them is not future but past.
The wonderful thing is that in response to repentance, which means a change of attitude towards the machine that makes evil in us and faith, which means that we trust Christ now, God calls us his child and will begin to work in us to shut off that engine that creates the part that we contribute to the trouble of the world.
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It seems clear that when you ask why God does not stop the trouble His ability is not in doubt. It is, rather, that we question why he does not act. So, then, why does God apparently do nothing to stop the ”trouble”?
Think a minute, what is it that He has to stop? It is people. It is hatred, violence, lust, selfishness, jealousy, dishonesty and a whole host of other things. Very well, then, the question to us is “Are you prepared to let God stop these things in you?” Yes, that is where the rub comes. The whole issue is essentially a personal one. What about your selfishness, your jealousy, your sin? To be brutally frank, if you are not prepared for God to start with you, you can never again ask the question “Why doesn’t God stop the trouble?”
There is another thing to consider. Instead of sitting afar off, criticizing God for his negligence, we need to consider some sobering facts. It is certain that one day God will stop it all. He will break into world affairs in the person of his son to destroy everything that is evil in the world. If we refuse to be separated from that which God must judge, namely the sin in our lives, then, inevitably, we will be judged with it. If God appears to be silent now, it is because he loves to deal with men in mercy instead judgment. He is giving us all more time.
And, when you ask, “Why doesn’t God stop the trouble?” have you ever thought about the Cross? Why didn’t he stop it there. Why didn’t God deliver his son from murder at the hands of wicked men? There is only one answer to that: “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.” (Isaiah 53:5)
God allowed it in order that the judgment of human sin should be borne at the Cross. He is, therefore, now able to deal with us in mercy because judgment has been met. Yes, all will be judged. The only difference is that all who put their faith in Christ, crucified and risen, are able to say that judgment for them is not future but past.
The wonderful thing is that in response to repentance, which means a change of attitude towards the machine that makes evil in us and faith, which means that we trust Christ now, God calls us his child and will begin to work in us to shut off that engine that creates the part that we contribute to the trouble of the world.
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