Why "bad" things happen to "good" people

First, God will do what He will do.  We are the pots – the clay.  We have no clue to our purpose other than we do on a daily basis.  If today I minister to this person, my purpose is to minister to this person today.  If tomorrow I praise God in that way, my purpose is to praise God in that way tomorrow.

Second, life does not have a timeline designed for our comfort or our approval.  We are alive for the pleasure and glory of our Creator.  We are the bride of Christ in development.  Our time on this planet is nothing more than the beginning of our eternal life with Christ for the glory of the Father.

We think that the death of a body is a tragedy when it is only the emergence of a life from the temporal to the eternal.  We are offended when the best are taken up to their Creator, as if it was something unfair.  It is the most fair.  Why should we demand that the best be subject to the most refining?  Does that even make sense?  Are we not here to be refined?  Does it not make sense that those who are nearest to purity would be done with the refining process soonest?

This world is absolutely broken and downright disgusting because of the fall.  Do we forget that?  Of course, the fingerprints of the Creator are everywhere, but that does not diminish the awfulness of what this place has become.  It is groaning – not because it likes the sound, but because it feels like death; because it is dying.  The earth is BEGGING to be released from its body of death and restored to the glory it once enjoyed. 

It’s one thing to miss a person who we love.  It’s a completely different thing to blame God for taking him or her.  He or she was MADE to be taken out of this place.  So were you.  So was I.  Perhaps it is the violence or injustice that ticks us off.  Even so, why are we surprised by violence or injustice in a world that is still governed by Lucifer?  We totally get it when we read about Job.  God laid it out pretty plainly there.  Do we think it’s just a nice, instructive tale? 

Someday, I hope to meet Uriah.  I hope that I can tell him how proud I am of him for fulfilling his duty to his king, even if his king was conspiring against him.  I hope I can tell him that I’m grateful for his example in remaining loyal to the point of death.  I hope I can tell him that I’m sorry that he had to move from this life to the next in such a violent and unjust manner.  I also hope that even now, as he is able to see his legacy, he realizes that we will never be able to forget what was done to him.  Indeed, his death was the asterisk applied to David’s legacy until the end of time as evidenced in I Kings 15:5.