Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen to Good People?

         Well, I' trying to stay up to see the blood moon so I'm writing to keep busy. Hopefully, it will make sense and everything will be spelled right. This entry can be a very agrueable one because people have their different ideas about why but this is a view that I learned lately to answer this question and it is a good way to at least think about if not agree with it. Just letting you know this entry is going to try to answer that question in a human way but then we are going to look at a charactertic of God that maybe will be able to show us why He lets some bad things happen in the next entry.
         Question is: Why Does God Let bad things happen to good people?
         We all ask this question when something bad happens to us or even to other people whether friends or just random people like in another country or in the same city but we never met them. Let me give you one good answer and it is a positive answer and way to look at things. The answer is: That helps God lead you to where He wants you to go. That seems to get your attention, because as humans, we tend to look to God more in our times of trouable. It shouldn't be that way but it is.
         I could share my examples on this entry and I think I will. This entry, kind of, goes with my last entry too because God loves to do things in order in our life. He is a God of Order not of Chaos. The turning point of my life or the main turning points at least is when God took people and things away from me. It is sad how we need to even let God do that sometimes because we are just too stubborn to listen to Him the 1st time like most children are to their parents.
         I remember the first big life changing thing God did for me was taking my Grandpa away. I could think on and on about all of these things and little details but these are the big changes. My grandpa passed away about 5 years ago while I was in my 2nd year of college. I was having a hard time picking a major because I thought my dream was always to be a teacher but God's dream was for me to get my FACS degree with a child development degree on the side. I was fighting with that for a long time and then, I think it was the summer after my grandpa passed away I finally decided to change it the next Fall semster plus honestly my math class was hard too another bad thing. LOL!
          The second big life changing thing God did for me was taking my Grandma away my college senior year. It was in April of my senior year of college. She got sick the Oct. or Nov. before that April with brain cancer. She had passed out on her floor at home and the drs. found it. We never knew anything was wrong with her. She was healthy to us but then all of the sudden she was in the hosptail. I remember my Grandad giving me a watch for my graduation present and saying that Grandma would have been proud of me (you) and also something along the lines of Grandma wanted you to have this watch. My Grandad also said that Grandma would have been proud of me because of the job I found after graduation. He said that at the 4th of July party that summer after I graduated at my aunt's house.
           The third big life changing thing God did for me was taking my Grandad away. That happened just 2 years or will happen 2 years ago this coming Oct. I think. He passed away and then I lost my preschool teaching job and got the job where I am at now and loving that job to pieces. You know what I think my Grandad would be even prouder of me today then he was with my preschool teaching job because my job was almost like his in a way. It is all about helping people and keeping people safe. I believe that God let my Grandad pass to see if I would let go of my first job to find another job but I didn't do that so God told me that I needed to go in not a very nice way.
           All this to say that: God can use the bad things in our lives for the good things that He wants for our lives. We might not see the reason right then and there. I didn't during there 3 events in my life but I look back now and they only made me stronger because I knew I had to be strong for a lot of different reasons. All of these people would wanted me to be strong and I had to be strong for my nephews and nieces. Those were the main two reasons but they showed me who I can really be for them. Like with my grandma, she was a homemaker and stay at home mom and I will never forget that and someday when I have that job I will remember her and become want she was or part of her. That is what makes me strong are the memories of who these people were. I know my grandpa was the Hunter and Farmer for the family and my grandad was the WWII Vet for the family. I will never forget the war stories he told us kids. They were so interesting!
             Why does God let these bad things happen to us? What gives Him the right to do those things? Find out in the next entry coming by this Saturday.