| It is often a misconception that God "controls" everything, he did create it, and he is in of course complete control, but he also gave man free will to make thier own choices and to live life according to the desires of thier own heart which often are evil.
Also we live in a world that is not our home, we do not live in a Christian or even a godly world but one that is still the home of Satan who is often called the prince of this world.
so in that as things happen, God is far too often pointed at as doing things that are first merley nature and of things that are caused by the evil in mans hearts.
And of course nothing is written in stone we see time and time again where Gods destruction was changed by the prayers of his people, we see this in the story of Jonah were an entire city was sparred ( at least for a few hundred years untill there evil returned)
And remember as Christians our blessings are in heaven, look at the followers of Christ after his death, none retired to a sea side resort, they all ended up dying bad deaths and torture or died in prison, but they were happy and free in spirit.
Todays Christians for some reason expect things on earth to be perfect for them, while they need to learn that thier happiness is in spirit, on matter what ishappening to them on earth. |