“I’m a Christian, but I have lately been struggling with a question: Do I believe God is Good, or do I believe God is just good to me? I see my life as having been blessed and guided by God into many good things (great husband, amazing kids, food to eat, etc.), but I struggle to reconcile all these gifts with the lives of those in extreme suffering and poverty. I’m not sure how to trust God with my everyday, (relatively) minor needs like relief for sick kids or financial problems. Why would I be rescued, when God didn’t rescue Holocaust mothers who watched their babies used as target practice? I believe in God. I believe he is Good. But I don’t know why I believe that.“
Poor and humble are blessed!
I cannot explain why God gives some people easier lives than others.
But one thing I do notice, it is often people with harder lives who are more aware of God’s blessing.
Which makes me wonder, is an easy life a blessed life, a better life?
How is it that children in poverty stricken countries are happier to play with a stick than children in wealthy nations to play with a playstation?
Why is faith growing so fast in third world countries, yet declining in first world… the first becoming last?
What we call a blessed life (health, wealth, happiness, etc.) is what Jesus calls a cursed life (Luke 6:24-26).
No, I have not answered this person’s question…
But I am wondering whether “my life as having been blessed” may not be as blessed as I think it is.
And conversely, whether those who seem to be cursed are as cursed as we think they are.
Jesus says they are blessed!