Just recently, I have found a forwarded message in my inbox with a subject title: Why God allows pain? I have come across this forwarded message a long time ago but it’s only now that the subject title struck to my line of thinking. Suddenly, it reminds me of an article I wrote with almost of the same title (Why does God allows suffering) In that piece, I reflect almost exactly the same as that article I found in my inbox— minus the elaboration to answer the question—Why does God allows suffering?
The truth is, God never allows any of us to suffer but it is our wrong choices that lead us to suffering. Although God being the Supreme Being, who has the power to do whatever He wants but refrain from dictating us what to do. Instead He gave us the freedom to do whatever pleases us which more often than not lead us into chaos.
If we are clearly to understand why God allows suffering, we must squarely face another important question. How can we have true freedom of choice and still gain freedom from suffering? We desperately want both. But are both possible at the same time?
If there is any single ideal that is practically worshiped in the West, it is freedom. Freedom is the bedrock of our social system. Many would be willing to defend freedom and self-determination with their lives.
God Himself has given people freedom of choice. In fact, such is part of God's great design. He does not force us down a particular path, but He allows us to choose the way we will go. On the subject of choice, God told ancient Israel, "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life." (Deuteronomy 30:19).
Mankind's wrong choices are the cause of most of the suffering we see in the world. But again anyone would surely ask, “Then, who are you to tell me what is right and wrong choices?â€
Surely, no mortal living can claim they have the moral ascendency to decide right from wrong but we can make use of that same freedom to seek for the truth. And that truth can only be found in His own Words as written in the Bible—and that will surely lead us to freedom from all kinds of suffering and pain.
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