When bad things happen to us. 

06 May When bad things happen to us. 

We sometimes wonder where God is when tragedies occur; why He would permit terrible things to happen

🎯No one is exempt from tragedy, not even the most godly.

💥Paul suffered through at least as many accidents and hardships as any of us ever will, and yet their painful occurrence never shook his confidence in a good, loving God.

🎯Tragedies are always agonizing and often senseless. But thank God, that is not where the story ends.

🎯God is in control, even when it doesn’t seem as if He is.

Even when tragedies occur and innocent life is taken or maimed, God remains in ultimate control.

🎯Nothing happens that does not first pass through his loving hands.

We may not fully understand how this can be when we face painful tragedies, but our lack of understanding does not diminish or destroy its truth.

🎯Before we were born, God knew exactly how long we would live and how we would die.

🎯God has a purpose in what He allows, even if we don’t know what it is.

🎯From our perspective, tragedies look meaningless and senseless and chaotic, but God knows how to take even tragedies and bring good out of them.

💥We may not understand what His purposes are, but we can take comfort in the fact that they exist.

🎯Hope is readily available to all of us, even in the midst of tragedy.

🎯And not only hope for eternal life and hope of being reunited with those we love. 🎯Hope is available right now, square in the middle of tragedy, because God has promised to walk with us through any disaster that might overtake us.

🎯This world is not our final home: When loved ones die in tragic accidents , it is a reminder that this world is not our final home.

💥We were created for eternity, and tragedy can never change that. This is only a transition period, a prelude, to what God really has in mind for us.

💥But because we usually look only at the present, we often consider someone’s death premature or untimely. Our perspective is enormously limited.

– With Luis Palau