Why Does God Allow This To Happen?

"Why did God allow this to happen?" This is a question I am asked over and over again when it comes to the many difficult times I’ve experienced in my life.

The questioner always looks at me with wide eyes, hoping for and even expecting the solution of all solutions, which can then be applied to every hard time for every person.

Do you know what? I don't have an answer for them. Honestly, I don't even have the answers today. Ironically, that's what helped me get back to living and being happy!

When Daniel’s three friends defied the king's command to bow down to the golden statue, a story told in Daniel 3:1-30, the king had them thrown into the furnace of fire! (See Daniel 3). They didn't stand there crying and say, "Why is God letting this happen? Why me?"

There is so much of value for us in the response of Daniel’s friends to this threat of being thrown into the fire: "If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up." (Daniel 3:17-18)

WOW!

They proclaim ahead of time that their God can save them!

They proclaim ahead of time that they will continue to trust their God even if He doesn’t save them from the fire, because they know God is always for them!

We don't need to know why God allows things to happen. We just need to know that God can save us! And even if He doesn't, we have to decide to trust Him anyway! Because you know what? Even if you go through a hard time, you never go alone!

"Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, ‘Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!’ So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them." (Daniel 3:26-27 NIV)

What an amazing story! This story can become yours! Proclaim beforehand that your God will save you! Decide beforehand that you will trust your God, even if He allows a very difficult time, because even though you may not come out of the situation unscathed, you will be changed and strengthened as you trust in your God!

God is with you and for you!

You are a miracle!

Déborah