Many people who suffer through something like this will often ask, "If there is a kind and loving God, why would He allow such a terrible thing?" This is a difficult question, but in as few words as my husband and I can find, we as Christians will answer it to the best of our ability. It is a hard truth, but one that can lead to great comfort.
God is all gracious and all loving. God created the world to be paradise, but the free voluntary choice of man-kind to rebel against Him caused a chain of events in which suffering is inevitable. It affects the natural world and our relationships with others, strangers and family alike. The worst cases of human depravity, such as a man killing babies, is an example of our fallen nature. We are all sinners in need of a Savior. That Savior came, died, and raised Himself from the dead in order to free us from sin's enslavement and curse. His name is Jesus, and living in a fallen world without Him is the worst tragedy of all.
God bless the parents and loved ones of the slain in Belgium; our prayers are with them tonight.
Below is an excerpt from the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry about evil and suffering. To see the entire page please go to http://www.carm.org/questions/suffering.htm.
"Suffering is the result of human sin. The world is not the way that God created it and because of that, all are vulnerable to the affects of sin in the world. Why does one person suffer and another does not? Why do catastrophes happen to some and no others? It is because sin is in the world. But there will come a day when the Lord will return and cleanse this world of all sin and all suffering.
'And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away' (Rev. 21:4)."
If you would like to know more about this or about Christianity, you are welcome to comment, and I will respond post haste.
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