Why lord???

"The secret things belong unto the lord our God" (deut 29:29).

Many a time we ask why God allows sufferings. "What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.” Jesus told Peter “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” (John 13:7)

One reason why God allows sufferings, is to make us humble, to make us small. God let the Israelites for forty years in the wilderness to humble them (deut 8:2) when someone speaks evil of you, if you get angry, if you are hurt and and unable to love that person, it is because of your pride! A hen can keep only a chick, and not another hen, under his wings. Unless we become small, God cannot keep us under his wings. We should not have any horns because we are going to fly. No flying birds has horns. Walk humble with God.

Sufferings also help to change our character (see romans 5:3,4) ‘patience’, in another translation, is ‘character. Our sufferings are doing a beautiful work in us, forming a beautiful character in us. Our sufferings give us inner strength. So we have sufferings, not because our God hates us, but because he loves us! you may be going through a dark narrow tunnel, but at the end of the tunnel you can see a light.

Don’t stop your Christian life because of your sufferings –keep pressing on! those who endured sufferings joyfully and pressed on were really blessed in the end (eg:Abraham, David,etc) those who do not like to suffer do not have a good end (eg: Lot, saul, etc) saul did not want to suffer. He did not praise God even once. King David suffered and had a good end.

The end of our life should be glorious. If we grumble, murmur or get angry when we suffer, our sufferings will bring us no glory. THE LORD ALLOWS SUFFERINGS AND KEEPS WATCHING OUR ATTITUDE.