Why Not Us?

People ask me often why God allows things to happen. "Why has God allowed me to get sick?" "Why is He allowing hurt, pain and grief?" When I hear that I usually think to myself, "why not us?" God allowed His own Son to be bruised, so why wouldn't he allow us to get bruised?

Isaiah 53:10 Living Bible 10 

But it was the Lord’s good plan to bruise him and fill him with grief.

Do we think that we are better than Jesus? That we shouldn't have to suffer any sickness or pain? If God allowed His only son to suffer, we are no better than He was.

Acts 5:41 The Passion Translation

41 The apostles left there rejoicing, thrilled that God had considered them worthy to suffer disgrace for the name of Jesus.

The apostles left rejoicing that they suffered for following Jesus. That is how we should respond to what is happening. We should be rejoicing in our suffering. To be on the same path as Jesus. He suffered and died for us. Took the sin of the whole world upon Him. So what is it to us to suffer for following Jesus?

We often pray for healing of our sicknesses and diseases. Some are healed physically, others are healed, just not in the way that we thought that they would be. God calls them home to Him, then they are perfectly healed.

When my mom was sick a couple of years ago. In and out of the hospital for four months. Me and my family prayed for her total and complete healing and for her to leave the hospital. All she wanted to do was go home. Well she did go home, just not to her home here on earth, but her home in Heaven. God healed her and got her out of the hospital, just not the way that we thought that He would.

So whatever you are going through, sickness, loss, grief, pain, etc... Count it all joy that God thinks that you are worthy enough to suffer for Him.

Remember. If we are not healed here in this life, we are healed for eternity with Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:8 New Living Translation

8 Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.

Amen!