05.29.22 Questions and Answers in a time of suffering? Various Scriptures

Questions and Answers in a time of suffering?
Various Scriptures
Sunday, 5/29/22

1.  Because God sovereignly and willfully causes or sovereignly and willfully allows suffering
2.  Because of the freedom to choose
Joshua 24:14, “Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.”
Galatians 6:7-8, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”
3.  Because of sin and the curse
Romans 5:12, “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all have sinned.”

Romans 1:28-32, “And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.  They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,  slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,  foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.  Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.” 
Genesis 3:17, God said to Adam “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you”
Romans 8:20-22, “All of creation was subjected to God’s curse, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption.  For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.”
So what do we do for now…
1.  Everyday entrust all you have and all you are into the hands of God
Psalm 46:1, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling.
Psalm 121:1, “I lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.”
2.  Everyday remember this is not my permanent home
Revelation 21:1-4, “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth.  For the first heaven and earth had passed away.  Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.  He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new!”