Sometimes God's Will Seems Wrong

God is too big for human understanding. His will exceeds my comprehension and I can never know the depths of His goodness.

  I believe God is good, I tell people that. And when life is going well, that is an easy thing to say and believe. But life is not bliss. Tragedy forces me to be honest with myself and with those around me. It forces me to come to grips with what I really believe about God. When I encounter pain, I naturally question God’s goodness. Why would He allow me to suffer if He loves me?

  The truth of the matter is that I do not understand what is good for me. Because I can only see through a glass darkly, I cannot see how the pain I now endure will grow me into the image of Christ. So while God’s will for my life may include more pain and heartache than I want, His will is still good. He uses this broken world to fulfill His purposes in ways my finite mind cannot grasp.

  God’s will may seem wrong to me at times. If He created this world, why does He allow it to become sick? Why is it dying?  Why do we get sick and die? In those questions I can give into my anger, or I can trust that God is doing something beautiful, and is making the world new again in His time. As someone said better than I ever could:

  “When things go wrong you ask yourself, “How can there be a good God?” I think doubt and faith are equally logical choices in the face of tragedy…Faith is to say, “Yes. The future will have pain, but there is a meaning and purpose deeper than that pain.” For me, that is my choice; to believe rather than doubt.”

-Jon Foreman