Why Bad Things Happen?

This time of year is probably the most exciting time of year. I really don't like summer anymore because of where I live. Arkansas is just to dang hot to be able to enjoy the summer.  Our attention turns right now to college football and the fall festivities.  We get excited for what the future might bring us this time of year. We look far into the future for our lives to be completely normal, we hope that our lives will be better but we never really see what bad could happen.

I'm the same way, I really feel eternal here sometimes, that nothing bad is going to happen to me.  But how foolish are we to think that we are invincible, that nothing will happen to us.  I sometimes call it strong faith, that I feel God will not bring anything bad to happen to me.  I am dead wrong on that kind of thinking.  God doesn't bring bad things on people Satan does.  He is the one trying to defeat us and God at the same time.  Faith is a word to me that has a lot of different meanings. 

It can mean that we simply believe in what has been done already in God's story that we believe his son was killed on a cross or that we believe in God as the creator.  Faith can really mean also that whatever bad happens to us that we have a belief that God will be behind us no matter what. Life can bring many awful things to all of us.  "Uncertain living" is what we are living here on Earth, we have no idea what the day will bring, hopefully though through our Faith we can have a comfort or a feeling of security.

I think of the story of Job, his life was great and that normal day of life became tragic to him and his family. He lost everything, his health went downhill really fast.  Job had no idea things like this would go on, but Job's faith was strong and he believed in God and Satan lost. Faith is our main tool to fight off the bad things of life, it's our spiritual immune system.  If our faith is weak then we shall fail, if our faith is strong we will stand fast no matter what life throws at us. 

Testing. It's what Satan likes to do.  He advertises his ways as great and hopeful, but destruction is his game plan.  He doesn't like anything that has to do with God and his son Jesus.  He tempts more and more everyday yet every time he fails and he is reminded of his loss.  If there was ever someone to be born  a loser it's Satan, a natural born failure.     

When the question is asked about why bad things happen to good people. The answer is that bad things happen to everyone, it is Satan challenging us and those around us and it is God watching us win by our strong faith in him.  When we struggle and life battles us through and through, if we can stand up and laugh and say to Satan I still believe on God.  He will run and find someone else to weaken and destroy.  Life is not here but in another place. Our place here is temporary like a footprint in the sand, eventually the tide will erase it.  Our home is in heaven to be eternally loved and protected from Satan.  What a day that will be.