Preface: why God allows these bad things to happen, is because God is love, He loves us all. God loves the creation of His Hands. He does not desire the death of the sinner, but that we should repent and return to Him. He continues to give us chance after chance, opportunity after opportunity, to change, to truly repent and return unto Him. God is humble, gentle, kind, faithful, compassionate, merciful, though Holy, righteous and just, but at the same time forgiving, persevering, persistent, exhausting all means possible and ever enduring and He will leave ninety-nine sheep to search for one lost sheep to bring back to the fold. By His Grace, we are saved. The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God (that is in Christ Jesus) and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit (God is Holy and desires fellowship with us), be with us now and forever more. Amen.
Isaiah 45 v7
I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster;
I, the LORD, do all these things.
Whenever I quote this verse to friends and relatives, they don’t like, they find it impossible that God “can create disaster”.
Genesis 21 v8-20
Hagar and Ishmael sent away; Sarah demanded it because she didn’t want Ishmael to share in Isaac’s inheritance. And when Abraham consulted God, God told him to listen to his wife, and he did and sent both the mother of his first born child and his first born child away.
I don’t know about you, but as a father, sending your son and his mother away into the desert is a calamity or disaster.
Genesis 37 v12-28
It was a caravan of Ishmaelites that bought Joseph and sold him on in Egypt, his place of fulfilment of destiny.
Everything works out for the good of God.
Ruth chapters 1 to 4
The story of Naomi and Ruth a Moabite who then married Boaz is well known. It was a disaster that happened to Naomi in the land of Israel (famine) that made her and her husband and two sons fled to the land of the Moabites. Her husband and two sons died there, another disaster. Then she returned with Ruth who ended up marrying Boaz. The line from which King David came from.
1 Samuel 22 v1-4
David’s family resided with the Moabites when he was fleeing from Saul. Once again everything works for the good of God.
When God does things, we might not understand, but God is good all the time and all the time God is good.
Isaiah 45 v7
I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster;
I, the Lord, do all these things.
When I was trying to get my daughter to take this bitter medicine (she found it hard to swallow, that God creates prosperity as well as disaster), I told her to read the verse as follows: “I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and allow disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.”
By substituting the word create with allow, just before the word “disaster”, I think I was able to make the verse more palatable or digestible for her. And we see in Job 1 v12 that God operated in this way. The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man, himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. This was a precursor to what God announced through Prophet Zechariah in the book of Zechariah, chapter 13 verse 7, which our Lord Jesus Christ cited in the book of Matthew, chapter 26 verses 31 to 32, the night before He was murdered, Zechariah 13:7; “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me!” declares the Lord Almighty. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones. Matthew 26:31-32; Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: “‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’[c] 32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.” Verse 32 was literally fulfilled shortly after crucifixion and metaphorically being fulfilled till today and tomorrow, as Jesus promised in the gospel of John, chapter 14 verses 2 and 3; My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. God allows these “bad” things because He loves us. He wants to bring us back to Himself, true Fellowship, in spirit and in truth, by the removal of the barrier of sin that separate us from Him through the Blood of Christ.
