Enduring Hardships

Cautionary note: This blog could be controversial because it's about religion. I hope I do not offend anyone and complete appreciate respectful comments posing your view, even if it's not the same as my own.

A fellow blogger, Amy, has written a post in response to a question I posed to her a while back. It's about enduring hardships and the Lord and his plan for his followers, especially when we endure hardships. I personally do not think that bad stuff in life are caused by God, rather I think it is the devil that causes bad things to happen. I do think God has the ability to intervene though, and why he doesn't choose to intervene in certain instances, can be a mystery. I do believe that many times, God does not intervene because a person has not asked him to (or asked properly) and other times, when you've cried, begged and pleaded with God, He does not intervene for your own good, although we cannot understand why at the time. A while back, I realized why God chose not to intervene in my M/Cs and I wrote about it in a blog called Revelation.

Here's Amy's response to that line of questioning, which I think is very thought provoking and I appreciate the time and effort Amy has put into responding to my question. If you're at all interested in the Lord or faith, you may want to read it.