Why do people suffer more than they have to?
Isaiah 27: 5,11,15 “This is a people without understanding. They refuse to come to Me and make peace with Me. They have made a lie their refuge and falsehood their hiding place. So, their Maker has no compassion on them, their Creator shows them no favor.”
Yet our Maker waits and is ready to show compassion and favor on anyone who will wholeheartedly come to His Son to make peace with God forever.
“’See, I have laid a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for your sure foundation; the one who relies on Him will never be stricken with panic. Your deception from lies and falsehoods that end in eternal death will be swept away and overcome; your covenant with death annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.’ The LORD will rouse Himself to do His work, His STRANGE work, and perform His task, His ALIEN task. Stop your mocking or your chains will become heavier; the LORD ALMIGHTY has decreed destruction against the whole land. ‘Listen and hear MY VOICE; pay attention to what I SAY! I instruct you and teach you the right way. I will not continue to plow, nor keep planting seed. For, what does the farmer plow and seed for?!’ [FRUIT that lasts!] All this comes from the LORD ALMIGHTY, whose plan is wonderful, whose wisdom is magnificent.” Isaiah 28:15-18,21-22,23-29
All you have to do is look out at what is happening all over the world since the world began, with the inhumane thinking and ways of rulers, and men and women and even children, and all the plagues and natural disasters – to see that our world is lost from God. Man can’t conjure up any way to stop natural disasters and plagues; it’s a deception.
True compassion comes from God, pity comes from men. Feeling sorry for ourselves and others - is not compassion. When God shows you His compassion it comes with power and deliverance. People don’t have the power they think they have, and neither have they the understanding of their own personal need to be forgiven by God and delivered from the power of sin and strongholds of the lying devil – until God makes it known to them by the Gospel of His Son and revelation of His Holy Spirit. Is it any wonder therefore, that the Holy Bible is rejected and Christians who openly testify of what Jesus has done for them are hated by the people trying to shame and silence them? The god of this world (Satan) is behind this, and yet people don’t get it. They have been deceived by the devil’s lies and falsehood as he rapidly works through people and governments.
Peace comes from God when men are right with God. The world has no peace when every nation’s ruling body/party/pulpit/throne refuses to make peace with God and live God’s way. God will soon send His Son, the Prince of Peace, back into our world to establish His Kingdom of love and perfect peace “on earth - as it is in Heaven.” This will be the result of the Lord’s ‘physical’ presence on earth, ending all evil and rebellion towards God victoriously overcoming all ungodly kings, lords, presidents, rulers, counselors, experts, priests, teachers, prophets, any and all with their own influence and control over people – just as the Word of God says.
As I keep watching the progressive destruction against America’s godly foundation by the ungodly in full power (White House and Congress) who are neither right nor wise in how they rule making decisions for us all, I see what is meant by God’s “strange work and alien task.” God is a TRUE father! A true father painfully disciplines his disobedient children. Pain and suffering produce repentance and humility. God is not afraid of His children like we see so many parents today who are afraid to quickly apply pain to their disobedient child’s ‘seat of learning.’ God knows just how much pain and suffering it takes with each of us. His will is not to see us suffer on earth, or forever in the place He prepared for the devil and fallen angels, but to see us right with Him to live with Him forever as our Father God. God loves people! But God hates sin and rebellion because sin and rebellion only result in unrest, division, chaos, terror, fear, hostility, destruction, desolation for the world.
Our government is only spinning their wheels as they arrogantly and ignorantly come up with idiotic schemes and policies that they claim with promise - will do us all good. But God is doing His “strange work and alien task“ in order to wake us up and shake us up for His purpose of wanting to show His compassion and favor when people come to Him and Him alone by faith, hope and love in Jesus Christ, the “precious cornerstone” of God’s everlasting Kingdom.
Religion (denominations of rules and regulations for worship, that add and subtract from God’s Word) have never done any good on earth for this world. Father God is after a personal relationship with Himself, through His Son, His Spirit and His Word. So, as earthly life gets worse and worse for us all, (as the LORD said it would) wisdom tells us to make sure we are at peace with God through Christ Jesus – the Savior of the world and the only hope of the nations.