Why Do We Have troubles?

It seems that every child of God has trouble in his or her life.  When in our teens or young adult years we may live without troubles and problems.  That's good.  Then some, in their senior years, also have few, if any physical trials.

But, most people have some aches, pains, and even surgeries.

One reason we suffer is that we reap what we sow (Gal. 6:7).  We can do some things in our young years that produce illness in later years.  We can't stop it.

Another reason is that some people inherit diseases from their parents.  They didn't do something to cause the illness.  They just inherited it.  They can't stop it.

Another reason is deseases travels from person to person, from country to country.  Many of us have a weakness for that disease and we are inflicted with it.

Sometimes we don't eat right.  Or we are careless in our hygience.  As a result we get colds, or some other diseases over which we can conquer.

We need to do our best to conquer illnesses that we can get a victory over them.  But, some illnesses stay with us for the rest of our lives.

If we have highly infectious diseases that others can catch we need to be careful in our association with people.  But some diseases are not given to others.  So we can associate with other people and do not infect them.

We have diseases and sickness because we are sinners.  That weakens our bodies so we become sick.  After the rapture of us believers we will have no more sin in us to influence us.

But for now?  Let God comfort us.  II Corinthians 1:4 says, "Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."

Comfort means to accept God's will.  It means to accept what we are experiencing with a peace of mind that God has a purpose in what we are going through.  Comfort is an encouragement.  Yes, we may hurt of suffer at times.  But God is working on our attitude to draw us closer to him.  We learn to lean on him more.  He may later remove the suffering.