This earthly life is
just a temporary period, we are to spend eternity ahead of us, and there are
some who don’t believe in God, or Heaven
and Hell, and some ask, if there is a God why is the world full of so much suffering?
Lets look at what the Bible says
2 Corinthians 4:4
Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the
minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of
the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ,
who is the exact likeness of God
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and that the whole
world is under the power of the evil one.
Word of God clearly
says that the world is under the power of the evil one, or in simple words
"Satan", and this is what he does.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
All the suffering
and pain in this world has been brought into this world by Satan, because, from
Adam, man has sinned and hence fallen a slave to his deceits through
worldly greed, lust and malice. So does that mean that God has no authority on
the world? God works by justice, and will punish those that sin. Surely the
murders and abusers and rapists can't be left unpunished, and a theft of 5000
Crore, or 50 rupees. All would be judged by God in the end according to their deeds.
So is there a way
out? will God forgive me. Most religions have the concept of equalizing your
sins by doing good, so that if you do more good probably you will be able to
enter heaven. But Bible says only through the blood of Jesus are our sins
washed. Knowingly or Unknowingly people sin, and end up abusing another person. Do you
think that giving out some alms is going to equalize that? No it doesn’t. The
sin must be atoned for, equal price must be paid. So what is that price is the
question. In worldly terms a person is said to have made things right if he
serves a jail term. E.g. a murderer serves a
really long sentence and is said to have been served justice. But is
that an equal atonement for his actions? Bible says that our actions doesn't
make it equal, because an unworthy repayment doesn’t cleanse the sins of a person.
In older times,
people sacrificed a lamb as an atonement for their sins and some religions
still practice this, but that is not enough, only a true and a holy sacrifice
can cleanse the sins of man, which is impossible to come out of this world, as everything and everyone in the world is tainted with sin, which is why Jesus came to this earth and lived a
blameless and holy life, which no one could do before or after him. And he paid
the price of the worlds sin by shedding his blood as a pure and holy sacrifice
so that all the sins of man can be forgiven through Jesus Christ as prophesied earlier.
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him
to suffer,
and though
the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin
(read my other post
on Prophecy of Isaiah on Christ's death and resurrection - http://wayoftheredeemer.blogspot.in/2015/06/isaih-prophecies-suffering-of-christ.html
)
Just as per the
prophecy of Isaiah(800 BC) Christ died for the sin of mankind and rose again
victorious, he is alive today waiting eagerly with the true and sacrificial
love that only God can give. Come to Jesus and know what is love !
