WHY DO GOOD PEOPLE SUFFER?
WHY DO GOOD PEOPLE SUFFER?.
I welcome you to yet another refreshing time in the Lord’s presence. Today, I want to discuss something very important about good people, friendly people who still suffer extensively. Many years ago, God told me, “You can be good and still suffer.”
We see very correct people in every sense of the word, these are people who can’t even hurt a fly, but nonetheless, despite their good qualities, they go through some harrowing experiences in life that will leave you baffled that, despite their good qualities, they still have such nasty and painful experiences.
This means to be good alone is not enough. There must be some things missing that one must be aware of and think and work out with great tenacity so that one will not be a victim of what one can easily avoid.
To be good here means to be naive, innocent, and simple, or it can also mean to be careless. Further, a naive person can also mean not taking things seriously in life.
Many good people with good intentions, like good Christians all over the world, still suffer day by day. They are easily deceived and easily oppressed. Some think it is because something is wrong with them when they suffer. They blame themselves when bad things happen to them.
For instance, we read stories of ladies been raped over and over again and they concluded that something is wrong with them, they are bad or even evil, they told themselves and as such they keep to themselves instead of crying out loud for helps.
Nuggets you need to avoid being a cheap victim of bad things
1. You must take life seriously.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. Proverbs 22:29
When you lack seriousness in your endeavours, you can never go far in life’s journey. You will soon fail, but God forbid. Do not mind people that tell you, don’t take things seriously. It takes a serious approach to have a glorious result – Bishop Oyedepo.
2. Go for knowledge and facts – Hosea 4:6
Don’t just believe everything you are told. Try to find out for yourself. What you find, particularly by yourself, will help you go a long way in life.
3. Don’t be too polite to accept just anything. Your life is not a dumping ground. In the name of being good to others, I have seen people who permit anything to go in their lives. They took unnecessary punishment for what was not their fault. They want to be nice. This is wrong, and it will never benefit anybody.
4. Be proactive about life generally. If you want to see changes in your life, act in the opposite direction of the negative situations confronting you daily.
5. Have a target and focus
Have a futuristic approach to life—look out for something. If your expectations are not being met, then do something about it. Have a pursuit, a goal, or a target. Set targets for your life with milestones and deadlines. Be intentional about your life as you give it a drive based on your personally sorted-out goals.
6. Get rid of assumptions and do not base your life on them.
Assumption is the mother of all frustrations; make sure your life is based on well-proven and guided principles and not just hear-saying
7. Don’t trust in any man; rather, trust in God for impacts and undeniable great results.
Jeremiah 17:5-8 – Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.