BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE. Luke 1:6-7; Romans 8:18.

Consider the elderly parents of John the Baptist. They did not deserve to be barren:

“They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commands of the Lord. And they had no child because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years” Luke 1:6-7.

I watched a 40-minute video of Ed Young, Jr., and his wife. Their daughter of 34, who has battled depression, recently discovered alcohol and would drink till she got alcohol poisoning. She had seizures beginning the first time she drank. She went to rehab and wanted to do well. She worked at her father’s church in Dallas and she loved the Lord. But after her first taste of alcohol, she was hooked. She only drank a few times but always drank too much. And she drank a lot recently, came home. Mom and dad knew and kept an eye on her, but she had a seizure and died. 

It was a huge blow, a shock. Just that day she told her mom “I want to live. I want to get better.” But she did not. And the parents went to God and searched their hearts and wanted answers, saying “God, we tried, we raised her in the church, we loved her, gave her a warm home… Why God? Why us? We were virgins when we got married…” 

Like any parent, they said “Why us, it’s not fair…”

But this life is not fair. More importantly, this life is not the end. Never forget heaven, your REAL home. In heaven, we won’t ask those questions. In heaven, we will be overwhelmed with the good things. In heaven, we will ask WHY ME about the blessings that come to us.

“For I am convinced that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory that is to be revealed to us” Romans 8:18.

Hang in, no matter what. Great things may lie ahead in this life—just as Zechariah and Elizabeth had a delightful son, John.

But even if nothing great were to come in this life, remember heaven, your REAL HOME.

God is going to bless you so amazingly that nothing you endure on earth can even be compared with it!

Think of a scale. If earthly sufferings were on one side of the scale, and heavenly blessings on the other, the blessings will not slowly tip the scale, the brass drifting down like a leaf in the breeze. The blessings of heaven will drop that side of the scale like a brick. BOOM!

No matter what we suffer on earth, it cannot be compared to heaven’s blessings!

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