WHY DOES GOD ALLOW PAIN?

"Why do I have to go through this?",  I know that most of you would have asked yourself this question at least once.

"Does God really care about how I feel and what I'm going through?"

"If HE really loves me, HE wouldn't let me suffer so much!"

"Why isn't HE changing the situation?"

"Does HE not hear my cry?"

I had days when I questioned God with all these questions. I wanted God to give me the answers that I wanted to hear and not what HE wanted to say.

Here are a few reason why God allows pain to prevail in our life. 

1.HE reminds us that only HE can control what's happening and we are just mere humans who don't have control over anything.

2.God sees beyond what our human mind can never fathom. So, HE sometimes uses our circumstances   to draw us closer to HIM.

3.When we make bad choices, HE disciplines us in order to bring us back to HIM.

4.God allows suffering to make us aware of our sinful nature.

5.When things get tough we tend to isolate ourself from people. It is during these tough times that we reach out to God. HE makes us solely depend on HIM and reminds us that we can't do anything on our own. We need God.

You might say, "No, he can't bring good out of my circumstance. The harm was too great, the damage was too extreme, the depth of my suffering has been too much."

But if you doubt God's promise, listen to what a wise man once said to me: "God took the very worst thing that has ever happened in the history of the universe— the death of Jesus on the cross—and turned it into the very best thing that has happened in history of universe: the opening up of heaven to all who follow him." 

If God can take the very worst circumstance imaginable and turn it into the very best situation possible, can he not take the negative circumstances of your life and create something good from them?