On Earth, Bad Things Happen To Good People!

We all suffer in this world.  Life is not fair and we are not IN Heaven.  And that is the simple, short and true answer as to why “bad things happen to good people”.  It’s not Heaven-not yet.  Our earth is a fallen world and bad things do happen to good people.  They just do.

And don’t forget, Jesus warned us, “that in this world, we will have trouble”.

Perhaps the hardest is when we suffer unjustly or see someone we love suffer unjustly, but that is when we need to remember and focus on that: no one suffered more unjustly than Jesus! And He did so with such Grace and Forgiveness. So perhaps we just need to focus on His example :). And although it can be hard, with God, Nothing is impossible!

And we need to reach out with Love and Kindness because so many people suffer on this earth:

Perhaps it’s a father with a family depending on him, who through no fault of his own, lost his job.

Perhaps it’s a really good person who just seems to suffer illness after illness.

Perhaps it’s a person wrongfully convicted of crime they did not commit.

Perhaps someone we love very much left for Heaven before we were ready!

There are so many ways that people suffer, many of them unjust.  And while it is easy to tell ourselves that it’s “just not Heaven yet”, we can still feel sorry for ourselves sometimes.  I know I do!

But that is when we need to think  not only about how Jesus suffered, but how all those who loved Him did.

His Father, who sacrificed His only Son for our sake, must have suffered greatly to see His Son in so much pain. To know that pain was coming. I can’t even imagine!

His Mother Mary must have suffered so to see Him crucified, but stood at His feet anyway.  How she must have worried when He was gone Preaching and Sharing the Good News, and yet supported Him and loved Him so. I know I couldn’t have done it! It just would have hurt too much!

Jesus, who not only suffered so on the Cross, but must have also suffered hurt when He was betrayed, when so many called for His death, even though all He had ever done was love and serve them! How it must have hurt when He thought of the pain that His Father and Mother, and all those who love Him felt. How it must have hurt when He left Heaven to come to earth to save us!

His Apostles, who loved Jesus so much, how they must have hurt to see Him suffer so! How frustrated and scared they must have been!

Mary Magdeline, who Jesus saved, how much she must have hurt to see Jesus hurt so. It had to have torn her heart.

The list of people who suffered, and especially Jesus, is endless.  And it puts our own suffering into perspective, if we let it.  Whatever we are suffering, it’s temporary.  Heaven IS Real and we WILL go HOME one day 🙂

But while we are here and because life on earth is indeed imperfect, there is no better example to follow than Christ’s and those who Loved Him 🙂