According to the British Heart Foundation 9.8 million men and 9.2 million women globally in 2019 died because of heart and circulatory diseases. According to Cancer Research UK, it is estimated that there were 10 million deaths from cancer worldwide in 2020, most from Lung, bowel, liver and stomach cancer. There are more than 700,000 deaths by suicide globally. According to Brake, every year over 1.35 million people are killed on the world's roads every year. According to WHO about 1 in 3 (30%) of women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
According to Wikipedia, A CDC study found that, in the US, 1 in 71 men had been raped or suffered an attempt within their lifetime. According to STOP THE TRAFFIK 30.2 million victims of sex trafficking (75%) are aged 18 or older, with the number of children under the age of 18 estimated at 10.1 million (25%). According to UNHCR, the most recent estimate by the end of 2022, stated that for the first time in recorded history, the number of people forcibly displaced is now 108.4 million, and there are over 35.3 million refugees. The World is not doing great at all and that means people are not doing great in so many ways including the many other areas I haven’t listed.
What happens when people are not doing great? So many things including asking questions that are often left unanswered, which leads to further turmoil and unrest. Coping mechanisms that may not be deemed healthy but when someone is in emotional pain, they want the quickest way of getting out of that pain. For many who believed in God, there is a very human tendency that leaves them questioning their faith, doubting God and for many it leaves them to forget all about God completely. As I said, it’s a very common and natural tendency for humans to come to this place and so like anything else it deserves No judgement whatsoever. We never know somebody’s complete story and their heart so we can’t judge. Not only that but we have no capacity to judge because we are all the same, we are all sinners, and we are Not God!
God gets the blame for many if not all the negative and traumatic experiences people go through. ”Why did God let that happen?” “Why didn’t he answer my prayer” “ I served in church all my life and he still let my loved one die” “ I’ve been a good Christian all my life, why did this have to happen to me” “I never ask God for anything and the one time I needed him, he turned his back on me” “He can’t be my father, a father doesn’t let bad things happen to his child! ” These are all valid questions and feelings. I can’t explain the rationale behind the events that have happened that then makes people feel this way.
I can’t explain it because its only God who can explain it. What I can do with my little understanding is give you my testimony and hope that encourages you and helps you see a different perspective and you can decide how to process the info. If I am honest my goal is for you to see God for who he really is and experience the supernatural things he can bring to your life. It is my goal for you not to see him as the scapegoat he is made out to be for all the evils of the earth. Why do these evils happen anyway? Was it God’s plan for these evils to happen?
In the beginning God created the world and when he finished the Excellent Book says he said it was very good. Adam & Eve were made in his image; the universe was complete and most of all perfect! There was no sickness, no cellulite, no love handles, no freckles, no acne, no belly fat, no bad hair day, no balding, no menstrual cramps, no cancer whatsoever, no erectile dysfunction, no menopause, no asthma, no sign of any virus like Covid and most of all there was NO death. There was no autumn! The leaves didn’t die! The animals didn’t die. The relationship between Adam & Eve did not die! They were fully intimate and secure in their relationship with no threat from anything or anyone else. They only knew the truth!
They also only knew Love because they were created by Love and therefore were creatures of Love. All they knew how to do for each other was to love! So, in God’s original plan Everything was Perfect! There was no evil. This is the truth that I would love for you to remember. God’s original plan was for his children to lead a perfect life not this one we presently have, with all the things you have been through in your life and will sadly continue until Jesus returns. That was not God’s original plan for you. The present evils of the world were not in Gods’ original plan. But something changed! Who changed it?
When God created Adam & Eve, he created them with this powerful thing called Free will. Free will gave them the ability to chose as they want. Why would God do that? When you love you don’t control. When you love, you don’t manipulate to get your own way. When you love you give the other person the freedom to chose you or not. When you love you don’t dictate. God is Love and he doesn’t force anyone to chose him or believe in him. Off course he wants us to chose him, but he wants us to use our free will to chose him.
So, what happened was God created room for Adam & Eve to chose him or not chose him, to listen to his instruction of not eating the fruit or not listen to him. The same exists today. You can choose God or not. You can listen to him, or you can skip listening to him. As with anything there is a consequence for our choice. When Eve chose to listen to that serpent and Adam chose to listen to his wife, all the things in God’s original plan vanished. Why? Sin came into the picture and once sin comes into the picture death comes into the picture. The Excellent Book says the wages of sin is death.
Did they die immediately? No, but they would die where originally, they were not meant to. They would now age, be wrinkly, get the arthritis, Alzheimer’s, dementia, incontinence and all the illnesses of aging and non-age- related ones too. Sin is doing something against God’s wish. Many times, we don’t resist doing what is against God’s wish because first of all sin is very tempting. We may also feel we may be missing out on something really good or missing out on being with the cool kids or being cool all together. Activities that are not in line with sin are seen as boring. Who wants to be boring right?
In this story of Adam & Eve alone we can see why God would not want us to sin. The perfect life of peace, tranquillity, true joy, happiness, true intimacy, everlasting love, no aging, perfect health would all be gone. In addition to that where Adam & Eve used to talk to God face to face, if they now saw him face to face when sin came in, they would die! The Excellent Book has many passages where people were scared to see God and even his angels because they knew God was holy and they would die. The worst thing about sin is it separates us from God. That is why we have prayer. We can no longer see God face to face and have a conversation like Adam & Eve used to, so God himself created an alternative way for us to continue conversation with him. Separating us from God is a strategy that the father of lies uses every day in his sneaky, manipulative, divisive and subtle ways.
He knows if he separates us from God he has won. He speaks in our ears just like he did to Eve and tells us to go ahead and go against Gods' wish, nothing will happen. He speaks to the childhood wounds of a person who then makes the choice to commit an evil act or do something unhealthy for their body. He speaks to our coping mechanism and convinces us of the “best and quickest way” to feel good. He speaks to our conscience and convinces us how we’ve fallen off the faith wagon, we are so far gone, God can’t let us back in.
He speaks to our feelings and keeps us in the place of guilt and shame so not only do we not talk about our feelings to anyone not even a plant! We get to stay in that place of guilt and shame, which is not the spirit of God at all! The devil wants to keep us there so that ultimately he can kill and destroy us. That’s his sole plan and he is successful by those figures I started with and there is more to come, much more because he wants to kill and destroy everyone.
This devil speaks to us and makes us feel so guilty and ashamed we dare not talk to God to rescue us, even though we know he can rescue us, because that devil has lied to us, that we are the worstest sinner, and we don’t deserve to be heard. He lies to us that we are not worthy of being loved. He lies to us that the prodigal son is a one-time story and we can never return home. He lies to us that we can only return home when we are a perfect Christian. He lies to us that we can’t tell God how we really feel about him because then we will be sinning and how dare we tell God how angry we are with him. The biggest lie he tells us and we sadly believe it, is that God is responsible for all the evils in the earth. If we believe that, then he’s gotten off the hook and can continue with his strategy to Steal, Kill and Destroy us and we won’t even know he is the one responsible because we are busy blaming God. All our energy on not having anything to do with God ends in vain because we are now in the hands of this serpent.
My testimony as I sit here on this imaginary witness stand is that God is Love. He loves all of us and nothing can change that. Sin may have come into the world through Adam & Eve ,Not God! but even then, he still loves us. The Excellent Book says how after they sinned, God created the first fashion week in the world and made organic outfits for Adam & Eve instead of the raggedy things they had made. This shows that even after we have sinned God still cares for us! His love for us does not depend on what we do or don't do. The truth about the death that came in when sin came, is we were all to die a certain death and not this one we know. The love of God made it that we will not see that death if we believe in his son, who took the death that we should have seen.
I fully acknowledge there are things that happen that we don't understand completely and breaks our hearts. I fully acknowledge there are things that happen that makes us ask questions and again it seems like God is still silent when we need him. I fully acknowledge life is hard and leaves some of us in extremely difficult pain. What I can tell you is God’s original plan of no pain or sorrow, though has had a twist, will still come into play, even if it's hard to believe. When Jesus returns, those who believe in him and have previously died, will be raised up from the grave first to meet Jesus in the sky! The people who are alive at that time will then join those who have been raised, in the sky. We will go back to the original plan of God.
A place of rejoicing. A place of constant worship. A place of no sorrow. A place of no tears. A place of no bills, a place of no mortgages, a place of no debt, a place of no inflated petrol prices, a place of no corruption, a place of no cost of living because yes Jesus paid it all, but he has been preparing for us mansions ever since he left this raggedy earth. When we get to that beautiful city, all the former things would have gone, the final enemy -death, would have been destroyed. The perpetrator of all evil and all his wicked ones who have been responsible for all the evils that have caused trauma and pain, will be knocked out of the ring for the final time. He will not be there to steal, kill and destroy. We will be safe in every way God originally planned.
Most of all we will be in our Father’s presence. Besides the constant party of singing and rejoicing I don’t know what else we will do. Maybe we will get to listen to the story of life, get to finally understand what he meant by his ways are not ours and his thoughts are not ours. Maybe we will get to hear the answers to all those questions we’ve had our entire life, that have never been answered. This won’t be through a sermon or an online service, but face to face with the Only one whose image we are made of and the only One who can love us this long and patiently wait for us to chose him through all the storms of life and to eternity.
I have had many testimonies of God showing me who he is. I have been honoured and blessed to be given the ability to process and see some of the things he has done for me with the help of the Holy Spirit and I am so grateful. It is only through this I have survived this raggedy earth and the things it has brought to me. Some include living through the murder of my dad at the age of 6, no justice in that situation, death of close family members, one of which I grieved when already going through the challenges of illness; rejection, uncertainty, human relationship issues, work issues, financial issues etc.
Just this week I got to understand something I have struggled with- God’s timing. Few months ago, a trip was organised for September. When the trip came, I realised how much I really needed it. God knew few months ago, when I was planning it, that I would need it at that time, I didn’t. I just thought I was planning a quick getaway. God pays attention to detail in our lives because he loves us and wants the best for us. Our feelings will lie to us and the devil will jump in and solidify that lie. My encouragement is despite what you see and feel which is very real, God loves and cares for you and will use all the negative things that have happened to you for your Good.
It doesn’t mean he brought it. The devil is real and so are people and their free will too. My Long Covid, I do not believe was brought on by God. What he has done is to use it to set me on a path of writing this blog and a new career to help others and my dream working condition of working from home. God pays attention to detail. So like Joseph said to his brothers, whatever harm they meant, God used it for his good. They had set out to kill him but, in the end, he was 2nd in Command in Egypt. Seeing as it’s the same God who did it for Joseph and for me, why then would this loving God whose love doesn’t depend on how you feel about him, not go and do abundantly and exceedingly more than you can ask, think and imagine in your time of need and anguish. He will! because he is a Good God and a Great Good. He is the Ultimate Best because he is the only one who loves you to Death and Eternity!
As we approach the 2nd anniversary tomorrow of when she went to sleep, I dedicate this peace to my cousin Sonya who is patiently waiting for the Resurrection. What a day of rejoicing it will be to see her again and Thank you Jesus for this comforting hope.
Related Verses
Gen. 1:31
Genesis 1:27
Romans 6:23
Genesis 3:21
John 10:10
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Revelation 21:1-4
1st Corinthians 15:26–28
Isaiah 55:8-9
Jeremiah 29:11
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