Sometimes, the pictures of war and turmoil (like in Syria), people (especially children) living with very deadly health issues such as cancer and HIV or those living in poverty and helplessness can be very disturbing indeed. It leads many to ask the popular question- “if there’s a God, why do these things happen when He could simply use His infinite power to stop them?”


I remember a story in the Bible where Jesus was faced with a man who was born blind (John 9). Actually the original manuscripts reveal that he was born without eyeballs in his eye sockets, just 2 holes on his face where his eyes should’ve been. Jesus’ disciples were puzzled and grossly disturbed. “Who sinned”, they asked, “himself or his parents?”

Jesus’ answer was “You’re asking the wrong question. You’re looking for someone to blame. There is no such cause-effect here. Look instead for what God can do” (John 9:3 MSG) or (put differently) “don’t start the blame game now, just let’s fix the problem!” And Jesus went ahead to heal the man and got him to see perfectly. It was an outrageous miracle and the news went around town and everyone gave God great praise.


I could go on and on citing examples of seemingly unfortunate situations that happened to people that you’d have thought should deserve better. I mean, the entire Bible is replete with such examples. Abraham, God’s pal, didn’t have a child when he “should have”; Joseph experienced one of the craziest persecution experiences in the Bible; Job literally went through hell on earth; Daniel, don’t even get me started; Jesus was hanged on a cross by the same people he sought to help; Paul suffered not a little despite doing God’s work… We couldn’t exhaust the many examples in the Bible of bad things happening to truly good people.

However, Jesus wouldn’t blame a soul for this man’s predicament. It’s very possible the man’s parents caused something spiritual or physicall disadvantageous to their child, or maybe it was just one of those cases where awkward biological processes in the womb of the woman hindered the proper development of the foetus. For all it’s worth, it could’ve been anything that science today can explain, yet Jesus wasn’t going to have none of that! He was not going to dwell on the problem, He was solution minded. As far as He was concerned, He was here now to solve the problem!....
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