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If God Is So Loving, Why Doesn’t He Do Something About People’s Suffering?

This is a typical question you hear on the street when you’re evangelizing. Most people know someone who suffers horribly from some condition, and it’s only natural to wonder why a supposedly loving God doesn’t do something about it.

But the fact is, He DID something about it when He sent Jesus. Jesus took our sicknesses so that we could receive healing on a 100% grace basis.

What the vast majority of people were never taught in church – but should have been – is that it is not up to God to do ANYTHING about people’s suffering – it is up to US, the Body of Christ!

If you are suffering from something, you have the privilege of believing that you receive the healing that Jesus provided when you pray. But that is something YOU must do. God will not just “zap” you with healing irrespective of your faith. (Even in meetings where manifestations of the Spirit occur, you’d still have to put forth the effort to get to that meeting.) God literally has done everything that He will ever need to do about your suffering, in the same way that He has done everything that He will ever need to do about saving you from eternal suffering in hell. If anyone goes to hell, it isn’t because a loving God didn’t do something about averting his eternal suffering; it is because he failed to appropriate what Jesus did for him.

If you know someone who is suffering from something, you have to realize that Christ’s Body has authority on the earth over that condition. God is not just going to “zap” it from heaven without His Body’s involvement. It is up to US whether we will take God at His Word and lay hands on the sick believing that they will recover. It is up to US whether we use the authority that Jesus has vested in us to command sickness to leave in His name.

If no one believes and receives, and no one does any laying on of hands or any speaking to diseases, the suffering will continue, but that is not God’s fault. He has given us the tools we need. It is up to US, not HIM, if the suffering will continue. That’s a sobering thought.

It’s not that heaven “allows” sickness; the problem is that WE allow it. Jesus said that whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven, and whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven (Matthew 16:19). We have been given the keys to the kingdom of heaven. It is up to US to do something about sickness.

While on the subject of suffering, let me say in passing that you are not redeemed from suffering persecution as a Christian. In fact, you are guaranteed it (2 Timothy 3:12).