Objection: Everything Happens for a Reason

God isn't the only one who has reasons for doing things.  The devil has reasons for doing things, too – his objective is to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10).  That is the REASON why he invented diseases.  He wants to kill you.  If he can’t do that, he at least wants to make you miserable by stealing your health.  So just because there is a reason behind something doesn’t mean that GOD is behind that reason!

I’m sure that there are “reasons” why suicide bombings, mass shootings and such occur, but none of them have anything to do with God.  God is never the one who is out to steal, kill and destroy.  The fact that something happened does NOT prove that God had some “reason” for “allowing” it to happen.  God gave the earth to MAN (Psalm 115:16).  MAN has the ability to mess things up, and God will “allow” man to do it.  He HAS to, because He has never taken the earth back from man’s control.

If you get duped into believing the silly idea that sickness happened to you for a REASON, you will probably waste all kinds of time trying to figure out God’s reason for it.  You’ll never get an answer because God didn’t have any reason for it.  He didn’t give the sickness to you!  Nor did he “allow” it for some reason involving your personal growth, either!  He allowed it because Satan has the legal right to be on the earth and to roam around trying to devour people.  However, God provided authority for us in Christ so that we can get rid of the diseases that the devil invented.  God didn’t leave us defenseless!  We tread on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt us (Luke 10:19).  In case you’re wondering why God hasn’t “done something” about your disease, the truth is that He already HAS done something about it.  He already paid for your healing by sending Jesus to take stripes on His back in your place. He has given YOU the authority to get rid of it.  Now it is up to YOU, not GOD, whether you will stay sick, just as it is up to YOU, not GOD, whether you will live on the new earth forever or suffer in the lake of fire forever.  God did what He needed to do about both sickness and sin when He sent Jesus.

Another spin on this “reason” thing is that people go on needless witch hunts for “secret sins” in their lives, assuming that the sickness came for a REASON that involved their sin.  In other words, they see sickness as the just punishment for their sins.  And they’re RIGHT!  But they forget that Jesus bore their sicknesses – the just punishment for their sins – in their place so that they don’t have to bear that punishment in their own bodies!  That’s the REASON that Jesus had to be made sick – so that you could be healed!