Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen???

Okay why am I writing this as a blog??? Well honestly I don't really know why I am...but it has been a question that I have thought about for quite some time. But really why does God allow bad things to happen in the world??? Okay I know kinda why God allows us, as Christians, to go through tough times and that is to help us and to grow us and help us to become more like him more or less. But why does God allow bad things in the world to happen??? To me it seems like if God really truely did care then he wouldn't let things like that happen. But he does...why??? Is it casue he only cares about certain people and since he is God he all ready knows who will go to heaven or not??? I mean like will a the war and killing and all that junk why does God want it to happen??? Doesn't God care what happens to people??? It seems like he cares sometimes but then not other times??? Like with 9-11 there was a bunch of lives lost and if that other airplane and not been tried to be stopped then a whole bunch more people could have died...but God didn't let that happen, why??? Okay well maybe I'm jsut a confused little person but that's nothing new...I mean it seems to me if God really cared then he wouldn't let bad stuff happen...casue well when that happens that just makes you really doubt that there is a God...or at least for me it does. Okay I know that is probably wrong but it's true at least for me it is sometimes. And even when I face trying times in my own life...sometimes I wonder if God really does care...I mean sure he cares about some people I can see that but then other well it just seems like everything is crashing down in their lives. I know it and overwhelming and frustrating feeling...okay well that's all I have for now. So yeah my basic question was why does God allow bad things to happen? And also it seems like the wrong in the wrong (big or little) in life goes undectected and nothing ever happens. But it seems like if we do something everyone jumps on us for it. Okay that's jsut my thoughts going on in my little head for today...

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.



Okay this is the chapter in my Bible that I read for today...I found it kinda interesting...Okay well I'm not 100% sure what the word 'conceited' means but I think it might mean 'to keep me from being proud' i don't know really but that's what I'm thinking...well God wants to keep us from being too proud and thinking to highly of ourselves so he allows Saten to bother and bug us...even though we may pray and ask God to take it away becasue we do not think that we can handle what Saten may throw at us we should know that we can casue in 1 Corinthians 10:13-God tells us that we won't face and temptation that we can not bear and that he will always give us a way of escape...and now back to my orginal verse i started with it goes on to say that God's grace is all we need and that in our weakness God's power will be strong...that is jsut like totally cool...or at least I think so...and when "storms" in our life come we need to be glad and be okay with it casue God is being made stong and known to others and it will help us to grow...Okay that's jsut my thoughts...don't know if they make any sence or are even close to being right but hey that's just what is going though that little head of mine....

i think...my life and pryorittees are mess up

okay i've been thinking about tonites youth group service...well i have been sorta thinking about this since sunday morning....but i think well i know my life is sorta messed up....but now i am begining to think that also my pryorittees are just as messed up...why do i say this....well becasue in a way i put a lot of things before God, before devotions, and prayer....I find it pretty challenging to have to sit and read my Bible for probably less than 30 mins and well prayer time that's kinda when i remember to do it...:( i know that's not the greatest thing....but then i can find my self spending 8 or 9 hours or more on the computer and well 4 or more hours playing video games... than in it self it kinda amazing when i actually stop to think about it....and those times when i find it hard to concentrate and read my Bible...well my mind can find and think of TONS of ways to seek revenge and ways to hurts those who have hurt me....i don't know why this is so easy but then so hard for me to take time and read my Bible but I guess for some reason that's just me...Why do i spend so much time on the internet/computer and video games....well I guess that is just a way that i ahve learned to "block" out the world...does it help....i don't know....but it's a way i can sorta avoid people...well at least in contact....and I can just sorta be by myself....casue usually when i am i don't get hurt.....unless i do it to myself and that's a differnet topic....okay well yeah not that too many of you really care about all this but yeah....sometimes i think that people were jsut ment to hurt you and not be able to ever trust....well okay that's not entirely true....there are a few peopel in my life that are for me no matter what and that they love me and are always there for me....but sometimes that's still hard casue well out of peopel i know those that i can really trust is only a very small percentage...maybe then again i jsut don't give people enough credit...but that is really hard to do when some people set out to hurt you....and then you sorta start just distrusting everyone.....okay well that's all i have for now...

Leviticus 19:31

All right. Okay well something has facinated me for awhile now. And it is like what you can do though medium, fortune-tellers, ghosts, witches, ect. I don't know why this sorta interests me but it does. And this has increased since I have become friends with a couple of girls I know. Okay well several months ago I thought it would be sorta cool to get caught up in this type of stuff. And then after talking to my best friend I kinda sorta saw how it was bad. Well anyways within the past few weeks or months I have begun wondering about it again. Sorta thinking if I only get messed up with it for good well then I'm okay. Well at first I was like NOOOOOOOO!!!! It is just wrong no matter what. Well after talking to my friends more I began thinking well it can't hurt that much if at all really if we jsut use it for fun and for good purposes. Well I talked to a couple of people that I know and that I look up to. Well they told me TO STAY AWAY FROM IT!!!!!! And to not go to her house and well things like that. I don't know I was still sorta and still kinda confused by it all. I have come to learn what God thinks about this all but then as I have looked into it more when God talks about it the people were using it for bad and for there own personal use. So yeah that is wrong but if you are jsut having fun is that still wrong as well??? I don't really know. But anyways I'm posting this blog cause well this has all been very confusing for me and I really don't know what to do or even what to say to my friend. Okay but then I was at the library yesterday and I checked out this book. They are in the "Wally McDoogle Series" and this particular one was called "My Life as a Haunted Hambuger , Hold the Pickles" well I hadn't thought too much about what the book would be about I just knew I loved reading this series. Well I then got home and began reading what the book was about. You know that nice little part on the back that is put there for you to write a book report??? Okay well as I was reading it it tells you about the book and then It say through out the story Wally McDoogle will learn about what God really has to say about medium, ghosts, witches, and things like this even if others use it for good or bad purposes. Well I was like WOW, interesting. ANd a few days before I have prayed and asked God to really show me if this is all really really all that wrong if we would jsut do it for fun. So yeah I thought it was kinda interesting and so yeah thought I'd tell some of you.

My Goals for the Year 2007

Well since it is still the begining of the year I am gonna post my goals for this year. Mainly to just help me to remember what they are. Some of them I came up with and the others my best friend came up with. Well here they are...

* sometime this year (and the sooner the better) be able to really forgive those who have really hurt me

* actually stay on track with my Bible reading and do it DAILY

* to spend the first part of my mornings in "quiet time" with God

* try to listen better and not get in as much trouble

* do good at school and not goof off

* when i face problems know that God and my friends are there for me

* to not cut myself this year

* to learn to accept myself for who God made me to be

* not be so easily influenced by certain people and not care so much about what others think of me

* to be nice to those in the animal world

* oh and yeah one more to remember to turn off my cell phone during church services

* Not to run in church

* not to sit on the back of the seats

* not to put my feet on the seats

* not to scream when something is touching or near me

* not to scream at all

* to listen the FIRST time i'm told to do something

* not to put others down because they don't know something

* Lift others (and myself) up when deserved

MySpace

Okay for all of you who care to know I also have myspace. Sometimes I will post the same blog on both here and on my blog on myspace. But for the most part I will do the majority of my blogging on here. So keep checking it out often for new things from me. I will be using this blog to post my random thoughts, some of my writings and poems, what is going on in my life, what I am learning from God in my devotions with him, and this is jsut a little of what I'll probably really end up blogging about. I tend to be a very random person so anything can happen. Well have fun reading and lookig at pictures. I am going to try to blog something daily but if not that then a few times a week at least.