Most people want to live in peace and happiness? Do you desire good health and long life for yourself and your loved ones? Do you long to see wickedness and suffering end? Good honest-hearted people wants these things. But today, in all parts of the earth, violence, crime, hunger and sickness are increasing.
Why is the world so filled with trouble? What does it all mean? Is there any sound reason to believe that conditions will really get better in our lifetime.
It's filled with trouble because people keep turning further and further away from what they know is good and proper and tolerate what they know is wrong. Worse, in order to justify these wrong deeds, they encourage others to do them as well. So instead of denouncing the wrong, people tolerate it.
It’s filed with trouble because justice has become a farce. Often the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. Sometimes wealth plays a part in receiving justice (e.g. lighter sentencing).
It’s filed with trouble because money and power are valued more than a human life, and disagreements are solved by bloodshed.
Man himself is born for trouble.” So said Eliphaz to Job about four thousand years ago. (Job 5:7) Your life is probably not nearly as tragic as Job’s. But no doubt you have your fair share of problems.
But one of the trials that Job was forced to endure was economic deprivation and illness he had , as his example shows, endurance is called for in every aspect of life.
Yet Some Christians must endure persecution; others, temptation; still others, less-than-ideal economic conditions. But endurance of every kind will be rewarded, as the Christian disciple James wrote in reference to Job: “We pronounce happy those who have endured.”—James 5:11.
This post was edited by Spreader at October 31, 2020 4:53 AM MDT
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