Monday, October 6, 2008
Instead of being bitter over the hardship we face, we must be thankful for all the blessing we enjoy. God produces many good things from the bad.
If we look at the Old Testament of the Bible, we’ll find Job, the poster boy of pain. His massive misery makes even my most severe seasons of suffering seem almost tame and tiny.
Why bad things happen to good people? What good can come from the bad? Here are several reasons:
1. To win an unseen victory
Maybe we don’t realize it now, but we may be players in an unseen battle. Our response to suffering may give God greater glory and get Satan to shut up.
2. To expand our perspective of God
More significant than receiving an explanation for our pain is embracing a bigger view of God through our pain. Allow your questions, doubts, and pain to press you closer to God than ever before.
3. To prepare us to receive far greater blessings
Most of us have dreamed of having amazing wealth and incredible influence, but we need to be reminded that vast amounts of money and power ruined the unprepared. Most of us are much better able to handle success after we have tasted failure. The hard lessons learned through the tough times prepare us to deal with better days.
4. To stretch us for greater growth
No pain, no gain
No wilderness, no Promise Land
No brokenness, no wholeness
5. To remind us that we are not home yet
We make a grave mistake when we expect earth to be perfect and think of earth as our home. Life on earth is irritating, infuriating, frustrating, unfair, painful, and confusing. Our final forwarding address is heaven. Consider this descriptive promise about heaven:
And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away
(Revelation 21:4,NKJV)
6. To refine our faith
Sometimes the intense heat of suffering is a refiner’s fire, purifying the gold of godly faith, forging the steel of godly character.
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Wanna know the other 15 Reasons? You can read from Dave Earley’s 21 Reasons Bad Things Happen to Good People, published by Barbour Publishing, Inc. Used by permission.
This book also has been published in bahasa Indonesia by Light Publishing under the title “21 Alasan Mengapa Hal Buruk Terjadi pada Orang Percaya.” For more information, you can visit www.light-publishing.com.
Posted by Lady Arsenal at 2:27 PM
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Penderitaan hampir tak terkait dengan ijin Allah !
Penderitaan selalu muncul karena perspektif kita sendiri dan sering ber paradigma dan dengan mengatakan bahwa itu adalah cobaan atau ujian Allah dsb...dsb ?
Coba kita renungkan !
Walau banyak orang mengtakan bahwa tangan kana itu baik namun kita tetap secara sadar tak mau bahkan sangta membutuhkan tangan kiri , yang mungki bagi orang tak kidal , tangan kiri sedikit lebih dipakai dan dberikan perhatian dan tugas sehari – hari ?
Mata uang yang mempunyai 2 sisi adalah salah satu contoh yang tepat, bahwa mata uang tersebut laku jika mempunyai 2 sisi yang jelas beda ?
Penderitaan dan kenikmatan / kesenangan ( bukan kebahagiaan lho ? )
Adalah sebagai suatu kesatuan yang utuh, dan kebahagiaan itu sendiri merupakan ujud rasa bersyukur atas peristiwa baik menderita maupun tidak, yang kita alami, jika kita bisa bersyukur !
Dan penderitaan itu muncul dari diri kita , karena nafsu dan keinginan yang tak tercapai !
Sebaiknya jangan semua langsung dikaitkan dengan Tuhan,
nanti timbul pertanyaan tadi : kenapa ya kok Tuhan menciptakan juga penderitaan ?
atau penderitaan ini ujian dari Tuhan?
Atau mencoba menghibur diri dengan berkata: ah Tuhan baru punya rencana yang lebih baik buatk kita ?
Dsb … dsb
lWalau tak banyak yang saya ketahui / hapal ttg kitab suci, namun rasanya Tuhan menciptakan itu baik adanya !
Rancangan yang sempurna adlah hanya rancangan NYa!
Kalau itu menjadi menderita ya kira – kira kita manusia inilah yang “membuat” nya / menimbulkan nya, akibat pikiran dan perbuatan kita sendiri!
Demikian sedikit komentar,
Semoga tak menjadi salah pengertian ya?
GBU
Sabumnim
(which was sent to Lady Arsenal's email)
a comment for "why bad thinghs..." by ferraro giorgio, Tuesday, October 7, 2008 12:24:33
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We learn by having problems to solve. A curios person could be fascinated by this world and finding there many intellectual problems - at least, but for the rest of the people an happy life tends to intellectual and moral vacuity. The fact that so many people have an hard life while so many bad ones conduct an easy and safe life has been noted since long ago and often at at the end of a war that people asked: why the best ones are almost all gone? Seneca the Roman philosopher gave a clear answer. He said that lucky people are people that God cares not of. If He cares, He gives the hard staff. The more you are valuable the more He keeps you under training. That makes sense isn't it? This also shows how far most of the 'religious' people are from religion/God. Just think about how many ones in this world are right now praying for finding the 'right' wife, the 'right' job, and so on. How wrong they are. While Jesus said one has to chose in between Him and Mummon, it's common for the the followers to even ask for more wealth. They keep asking to the wrong God you see.
I heard of a priest whose followers mostly used motorbikes, well this guy one day told them that, by being good Jesus followers, the following year most of them will come by car. That's possibly a good marketing trick (protestant priest abound of such knowledge) but how tragic is that! I personally do not buy the story that God sacrificed His son for our sake. I just think that if He would care of priests we'll see some of them crucified for their own sake, eh eh. Please spend a few thoughts on that and you'll possibly jump some training!!
Giorgio
there are no bad things for those who love God...and lovers of God never question the wisdom and the will of God...
ROMANS 8:28
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose."
We must understand the purpose of our being and the purpose of God in creating us, and after all we'll realized that no bad things has happened.
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