SUFFERINGS: Does it mean GOD's eyes are closed?

Rape, sickness, accidents, death, floods, earthquakes, storms!! If God loves this world, why is there suffering? Did God close His other eye to the troubles in the world? Does God truly exists because if He really does, then the world would be a happy place!! Many questions of such has laid for us a road of doubt whether God does really exist in the world!!

First and foremost, I would want to reaffirm the truth that God truly LOVES EVERYONE in this world. God is here to save us at the first place, not to destroy us.

Now I’m gonna share with you the reason why sufferings is happening in this world.

First, let us go back to the beginning of the creation in the book of Genesis from the Bible. Initially God created Adam and Eve and God love them so much. God had gave them a very beautiful garden, called Eden where they can play and eat all the fruits from the garden. However, God had warned them not to eat the fruit from a tree in the middle of the garden. But Adam and Eve CHOOSE to disobey God and ate the fruit from that very tree. That’s where the sufferings of the world begin due to the disobedience of the first human beings. Since both Adam and Eve choose not to listen to God, so God had to step away from their lives. This is just how the world is like now. The world is in total disobedience. We choose to live by our own selfish desires and kick God away. Disobedience to God, living under the control of the evil desires of the devil is considered as sin. This sin has separated us from GOD. It is us who FIRST choose to step away from GOD due to our disobedience, not vice versa. Because of the human’s selfish desires, the world was sooooo corrupted. That’s where rape cases, robbery, killing, child abuse, abortions, drug addiction take place. These sufferings are the direct consequences of humans’s actions themselves not of God’s. For God’s initial plan is to prosper us, to give us a good life, a good future.."Jeremiah 29:11"..

Since the world was so corrupted, we actually deserved punishment and death for what we have done.But God doesn’t want to see His creation get destroyed. God had came up with a plan to offer peace to us. GOD came to earth in the form of a human being JESUS CHRIST, who is blameless and upright to bridge the gap between us human and HIM!
In the Bible, John 3:16 tells us that “For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have Eternal Life.”

That’s a GOOD NEWS to all of us. Jesus Christ had to undergo the sufferings of the world in order for us to go to Heaven. All our sins and faults had been taken to the cross where HIS Blood was shed in order to forgive us.

Jesus had died for the world, for the drug addicts, rapists, liars, murderers…just to forgive us eventhough we actually do not deserve it!

“The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, full in love, He will not always accuse, nor will He be angry forever, He does not treat us as our sins deserve, or repay us to our wrongdoings” Psalm 103:8-10

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Sometimes God allows sufferings to happen is because the world’s heart is so HARDEN. Imagine a little child refuse to listen to their mommy and daddy over and over again! Than there’s where discipline comes in. God does not intend to allow sufferings at the first place, but since the world would not listen, thinking that they can lead their life better without GOD , they are actually going nearer to the path of destruction, and the only way to make people realize that they need to come back to God is thru SUFFERING! It is a WAKE UP CALL! An ALARM CLOCK to the world…If the entire world is obeying God, trusting Him, relying on Him, there wouldn’t be a WAKE UP call after all…

Jesus had came to save the world, but the world seems to refuse Him, so...

“The Lord disciplines those He loves….” Hebrews 12:6 tells us that just as the father disciplines his son, so Our GOD discipline us too for our good…

I don’t think that every parent loves to hit their children for their wrongdoings. But what happen if the little child never learn?? Discipline will be the last resort…God’s heart hurts to see us like this but if there’s no discipline, then we are all on the way to destruction, which is HELL!! Whether we like it or not, HELL does exists….and GOD does not want us to end up there…for HEAVEN is waiting for us…that’s where our ETERNAL LIFE is ( just like in John 3:16)..

"Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, That it cannot save;Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God;And your sins have hidden His face from you,So that He will not hear" Isaiah 59:1-2

God has indeed reached out HIS hand to forgive us, to offer peace with us. God does not require us to do anything to earn HIS love, He just wants us to reach out our hands to His' because HIS LOVE had existed long time ago, until now, and FOREVER...And God does not force us to love Him either, He loves us so much that He give us the choice to make:love Him or disobey Him.

"If we confess our sins, HE is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." That's a promise from our loving GOD in book of 1 John 1:9.

When the new heaven and earth comes, God had promised us this : " He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away" Revelation 21: 4