{"id":4013,"date":"2023-07-05T03:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T03:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2023-07-05T03:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T03:26:49","slug":"why-do-bad-things-happen-to-good-people-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=4013","title":{"rendered":"Why do Bad things Happen to Good People?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

                                  Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A good friend of ours was ill for a couple of weeks and in the end she went to the doctor when her breathing became difficult. After numerous tests, she was told that she had an aggressive type of lung cancer. Needless to say this left everyone who knew her in a state of shock. \u201cWhy her?\u201d people were asking, \u201cShe did so much good around the place!!\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 People often ask this question\u2026.it just seems that life isn’t fair!! We do the best we can and then things go wrong for us! I got to thinking about this age-old question and then thought about a man in the Bible whose name was Job (pronounced Jobe). He was a good man who always did the best he could and then he lost everything. But reading this story\u00a0 will give us a picture of why this happened which will help us to see things differently and put them in a wider picture when things go wrong for us too. \u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s turn to the book of Job in the Bible and see what it says about him\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0 In chapter one, verse one, we read\u2026.”there was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, one who feared (respected and reverenced) God and who hated evil.”<\/em> So we see that Job always did his best and as we read down the chapter, we see the things that he did for himself and for his family. Let’s turn it into a story\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0 One day, God’s team of angels came to report to Him. God noticed a shiny, glistening, sneaky looking one among them who\u00a0 didn’t usually come, and recognised him instantly. “Where have you come from, Satan?” He asked. “I’ve been walking up and down all over the place,” Satan replied shiftily. “Have you seen any person as good as My servant Job is?”, God asked, “No-one else is as good in the whole world as he is\u2026.he loves Me and hates everything evil! He makes me an offering every day, not only for himself but also for his family.” “Ho”, sneered Satan looking at God, ” No wonder he is so good! You look after him on every side, and have given him all he’s got! I bet if you took it all away from him it’d be a different story! He would curse You to Your face if that happened!!” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God knew His man, and He knew He could trust Job to do the right thing. “OK,” He said to Satan, “We’ll see. I’m allowing you to take away everything that he has. I know he will stand firm for Me.” \u00a0Satan chuckled gleefully. ” I’ll make him sorry for following God’s ways. I can beat him!” \u00a0\u00a0 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So you can see that more goes on behind the scenes, than we know about, and next time we will see what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                                  Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A good friend of ours was ill for a couple of weeks and in the end she went to the doctor when her breathing became difficult. After numerous tests, she was told that she had an aggressive type of lung cancer. Needless to say … Continue reading Why do Bad things Happen to Good People?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508],"tags":[890,337,889],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-lessons","tag-evil","tag-god-knows","tag-good"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-12J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}