Why does god bless bad people

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Absolutely his closeness will lead you to the end goal with paradise and make you happy in this life. I am really frustrated.. Around 20 years I have worked honestly with top position.

I were got many opportunity to take bribe but I never did it. After 20 years I have opend my own business with all my saving.. I am import cloths with all legal documents and by paying Tax. Where as the shop infront of me import illegal. But that shop is working very well. OTher side the owner of that shop husband is father in church.

Telling whole word about god and follow right path and he own family doing illegal business. My question is that we get after working honestly?? However, the honest businessperson does not have to live in fear of discovery by the law or the decent people in their community or church. And, most importantly, the honest person can have a relationship with, and receive blessings from, God; the dishonest person cannot.

When you keep in mind that financial success is the least important part of life, and a relationship with God is the most important part, you can see that you are actually doing far better in life than the dishonest businessperson. Stop worrying about what other people are doing. Do your best work with a good attitude. God will make it worth your while. A friend of mine always lies and is like a chameleon. Like if she is now with me talking against someone the next moment you will notice her with that someone talking against me.

But sympathy does not means you should praise someone. Teachers be partial with us just for her. I mean if she will not bring any of her book the teacher is like today am not in a mood to scold anyone or something like that or else its okay. If the some thing is done by anyone else she would rather give a note. I know this is partiality but she is also so evil and intentional from inside.

We tried to tell the teacher that why you be so partial but she either ignores or just for few days we are in a limelight. That girl is selfish and she will let you complete her work and if you ask for any help her answer is NO.

Why this girl is praised even though being so cunning and intentional………. Maybe am jealous. But yes I am jealous of her. Sometimes i think that even i should be evil and witness all these success. I feel jealous of her sometimes…… I read the content and did not found it complete well was good.

Its overall my opinion can anyone answer that why that intentional girl always. Every authority that you ever encounter, teachers, bosses, etc, will have their favorites. Sometimes it will be obvious why favorites are chosen, and sometimes it will not. Sometimes that favorite might be you, but most times it will not.

Part of growing up is recognizing that favorites always exist, and always get special treatment; stop focusing on their lives, and focus on running your own race. Focus your attention on being a good girl, working hard, and having a good attitude; these are the things that God will reward you for… And those are the only rewards that matter. I want to disapprove this rich,saddest fella n show how the world she or ought to be….

Thank you so much for this post…our gift is eternal life not temporary life.. I truly want to believe God is just. But when He allows my husband who has always made more than me, has better benefits and more advantages than I will ever see to continue to emotionally hurt me while he lords over the fact he can do this, he can have that, he has spent this, etc.

My husband will never change, I can only do so much and I know God has to be the one to change his heart. Both you and your husband have free will, given to you by God; God will rarely interfere with free will. Your husband uses his free will to be successful in business and rub your nose in it; you use your free will to allow him to treat you badly and refuse to buy gifts for your children. If you want God to help you, start helping yourself; make the new year your time to break away from this man who clearly has no real love for either you or your kids.

Even if you have to live in a mud hut, it will be better than living with that ugly behavior day in and day out. Thank you both so much for this ,I really really needed to read this. My current situation is my husbands ex was always trying to break me and my husband up,for sooo many years. Shes very sneaky and always up to no good with her words against me.

She ended up very succesful with a Bachelors. Now before i met my husband I had my oldest childest with my first baby daddy. I have one daughter with my ex and two daughters with my husband. Well the father of my oldest always cheated on me and made fun of me with his friends.

He hardly ever saw our daughter growing up. Well he ended up a very good job. Gets paid so much and still gives me very little child support. His new wife ,couple years back put her hands on our daughter and he sided with her. But I am in tears right now. I have always asked this question.

And you answered it in a way I never really put thought to it before before. Really opened my eyes and now I can rest better with the way you explained it to us. Thank you also for the verses I screenshot them and saved them.

This really helped me. I have been going through some things at work. I have been very upset to the point of wanting to quit. I prayed for the Lord to help me and I found this. I feel a lot better now and understand my situation at work now. The common thing we see around the world is for people to cheat lie steel basically break every one of the ten commandments for there own personal gain.

Once they are old and feel that the time to meet there maker is near they all of a sudden seek a relationship with God and actually do good things for there family and community, but I wonder what about the evil life they lived? Are we to forgive them now that they are no longer blind and see the light?

No one is rewarded for doing evil things. Evil people have benefits because they took them for themselves, not because they were rewarded. Is it not your wish that all evil people will give up their evil and be good instead? If someone gives up evil and embraces God, embraces goodness, then of course God forgives them, and we must forgive them as well. Why would you NOT forgive someone who made such a change, or want God to not forgive them?

You need to release the bitterness that is in your heart. Jesus told us to forgive; that is what we must do. When and how an individual person might be punished for their evildoings varies wildly from person to person, will not always be visible to you, and more to the point, is quite frankly not your business; you are not the monitor or gatekeeper for their lives, God is.

Trust Him to handle it. You need to get rid of this bitter, jealous, complaining, negative attitude; you are harming yourself, and just yourself, not these other people, by your attitude, and preventing God from blessing you.

It should be possible to have peace with God and with this life, sans stress and being all wrought up over bills and calamity. Is it the spirit that follows natural or the reverse? That is what is taught in Christian circles all over the world-especially Word Of Faith proponents. Seems logical enough as well because if we see the natural because of the spiritual world, then those who sow peace spiritually should reap peace in the natural as well.

Sounds straightforward enough. You have some strange ideas about the natural and spiritual worlds; they may be taught in the Christian circles that YOU participate in, but the vast majority of people do not learn or believe in any such things. None of that is scriptural; I advise you to forget about it and stick to what the Bible tells us. Such as:. Matthew NIV 45 He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Thank you for your sharing. I was so frustrated over this matter. How come this most corrupted fellow can even being promoted to higher position. I always ask God about this matter. I felt must better now. Most of all His grace upon me. Thank you Lord Jesus. Those who wait [and watch] you. Yes is hard to be saved in christ to be out there for many years doing the lords work.

I have laid awake at night praying and wondering why god allowed such evil people to hurt me and use me so badly. My tears are my food everyday. Pastor shell. When it comes to being rewarded at work, simply many people are not rewarded. Politics is played and a bad boss is a nightmare.

Plus working for someone traps and limits your potential, time and pay. Most truly happy and successful people seem to be in business for themselves and not working for others. This has only exploded with the creation of the internet. Where does it say in the Bible thou must work 8 to 9 hours per day for someone else and have limited vacation time and pay?..

I have known several highly qualified people who never got the promotion due to various reasons. Things only got better when they left. Working on the net is one way to leave. In Biblical times, people worked hours per day, there was no such thing as vacations or time off, and most people barely made enough to eat… And slaves of course were not paid at all. Those were wonderful scriptures! But does not the Lord also say do not take vengeance for vengeance is mine? N you reap what you sow?

What do all those scriptures mean, than?! All of the Scriptures mean exactly what they say, of course. You need to STOP trying to find a way that evil people are being blessed or favored or assisted in any way by God; no such way exists, and focusing on this will cause you to lose out on the very blessings of God that you are so concerned about.

Love your Words here, but I have a questions.. What if these evil people conspire against you and takes your newly Born baby s from you, and put them into fostercare, and this forsterfamily Lies and cheat to do anything to keep your children, and the evil state works with them in this.. And they both succeed? I have experienced this twice in Denmark, and has now fled to Sweeden while oregano with my last child, which they also conspired to take away.

We are now fine and well in Sweeden. What about my other children, which evil people succes in keeping away from us? I understand not to be jealous of people and their succes is money, riches and such, but this is my children and my blood and responsibility! If your children were taken from you without valid reasons, chances are you will be able to get them back.

FH, God cannot commit evil because it is not in his nature. Yet he has free will. You mean, why did God not give humans a godlike nature? The answer to that is self-evident, if you think about it. In the absence of possessing a godlike nature, we would have to be robots without true free will in order to never do anything evil. Im in the company of a wicked and vile man in my eyes. But yet I see how good and prosperous everything he does is.

Im starting to feel I might not be the good person I thought I am. So change it! Get away from the wicked man; prosperity is no excuse to keep company with the wicked. Ask God, and He will give you the strength to do it. When I was a younger man, I was much misguided and felt betrayed by my lack of success but as I grew older I found that a quote by w.

This is the the truest sentiment I have ever heard to this day and I feel this has been the most Christian like ideal I have held. I have never really attended a church but feel God maybe omnipresent and as such keeps me right. I like to feel if I should meet St Peter at the gates one day then he may judge a true heart and accept me for the human being and son of the earth that I am and I am content with myself and do not fail to help others and give the wisest counsel that I can offer.

My life has turned around and I have within reason all that I need for my own girlfriend and son if not all that I want, but that would be simple greed and avarice to want more than I need. I firmly believe as astronaut Neil A Armstrong said that to stand on the moon and look up at the beautiful shining planet Earth it is hard to not to wonder at its creation and stand in awe and wonder. Peace to you all. Iguess he knows my heart. Oftentimes, people resist the truth, and respond with belligerence, but you have owned your behavior, repented of it, and are making exactly the decisions that you should have made: to try to understand better, have more faith, and do what God would want you to do.

I will still pray for you, but I think that you have already put yourself on the path to get where you want to go! I quit smoking over 20 years ago, only frank socially, like wine with dinner.

Took care of myself, and almost died. I have a family relations who were very dark people who smoked and drank all their life and had perfect health. I am however grateful god healed me. I see a lot of evil people who have a lot of family and friends. Maybe we are not supposed to be happy on earth, or are led to believe that so we can be used. Who knows. Tired of my struggles and those who I love wgonstruggke much. When will it end?

Things do seem to get worse. My daughter hates life. Only 21 and she is depressed. I pray every day now for years. We seen endless counselors who hust take our money that we barely can pay and still no help. She is HF austic abd sees no future for herself. Thinks life is pointless. People are discriminate against heavily for this condition.

I fear she will strive. As we all know even Christians starved to death in this world. My dog is everything and he is old now. Everyday I get with him keeps me going.

Congratulations on being a survivor of a very dangerous cancer! In order to fully enjoy the life that was spared, you need to shake some attitudes that are keeping you in bondage:. Evil people often have more because they are willing to do what it takes to get things, and the more you are willing to grab, the more you will have, for the most part. Your husband clearly is not a suitable marital partner for you; it is time to end that relationship and move on to make a new life for yourself.

Your daughter sounds clinically depressed, in which case she needs meds. If she is on meds and still sees no hope for life, those meds are not working, and she needs to be switched to different meds until the ones that will work for her are found. Unless you live alone on a mountaintop somewhere, there are people around you, and since you have access to the Internet, you can locate some of the many websites and groups dedicated to helping people meet others in their area.

If you want to start having more answers to your prayers, you need to change your outlook and attitude. God does not respond positively to complaints and negativity, no matter what the situation is.

The more you describe how terrible everything is, speculate that all there is for you is to be used and unhappy, and refuse to take any concrete actions to change anything, the fewer blessings you will receive. I have a question, My ex used me, lied to me, cheated on me. It was an on and off toxic relationship where he left me for the girl he was cheating on me with, then came back and promised he has changed and he left me again, he told me he only loves me and that every other girl means nothing to him and he even kissed me but he immediately posted a picture with a new girl, but he told me that she meant nothing to him and said that he wants to remain single but is now with that new girl.

You can make the same argument against any religion that says that God is good. Why do bad things happen to good people? Psalm 73 struggles with the flip side of that question—Why do good things happen to bad people?

In our celebrity-obsessed media culture that seems like an obvious question. How can it be fair that so many of the rich and famous are complete jerks? It might occur to the psalmist that this is prima facie evidence that the CEO is a wicked person, a person who does not care about justice for his workers.

If he did care, he would not even accept such inequality in his own company. The question here is not addressed to the rich. It is addressed to God. Both questions also assume that we live in a tit-for-tat Newtonian universe, where every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

If you do some thing good, something good should come back to you; if you do something bad, some thing bad will return to you. If those assumptions are true, the righteous should prosper and the wicked should suffer and be in poverty. But the psalmist noticed that an awful lot of wicked people had shalom, while he did not. What if, first of all, God has given a high degree of freedom to human beings to shape their own societies and politics and economic systems, including systems where bad people can rig the systems?

And second, what if God has not constructed a universe where there is payback for every evil or good deed? The Hindu idea of karma says that there will be payback in this life or the next for every evil or good deed.

Most versions of Islam emphasize that while God is merciful, God metes out punishments and rewards in a predictable fashion. It seems to me that this is considerably less true in the Hebrew scriptures we call the Old Testament, where there is more emphasis on a fluid covenant relationship than on tit-for-tat consequences, and the life of Job stands as a radical critique of a simple-minded view of divine justice. That idea seems even less true in the New Testament, where the whole story of Jesus, the righteous one who suffered for us, stands in contradiction to the idea that a good life pays off.

Christianity, like some strains of Judaism, is willing to live with the idea that life is not fair and righteousness has to be understood as its own reward. God is good!

And the people reply, All the time! God certainly is good, but that does not mean that in the near term—or the middle term—God punishes evil. California is not in a drought because of some sin they committed, and we do not have plenty of rain on Block Island because we are so righteous.

The psalmist implies that he always believed God is good, but he almost lost that faith—his feet almost came out from under him—because he saw the lack of fairness in this world. It bothered him that bad people were blessed with health and wealth, because he thought a just God would make them pay for their sins. His envy was mixed with indignation at the injustice of it.

He spends eight verses describing the arrogant wicked. My body is something less than sleek, he implies. You have to wonder if this is really accurate. Has he ever actually watched the Kardashians? Everybody has trouble. The other is natural calamity, events that overpower our lives, from which none is immune. However, humanity has the tools and capacity to nearly eliminate these outcomes if it chooses.

It is only through the inequality of the world, the wasting of resources, prejudice, the inflexibility of nations, and elevating our lower natures that these events have such tragic impact. First, humans are cut off from God as a result of sin. This began with Adam and Eve and has continued unceasingly throughout history. Sin damages our conscience so we do not objectively know the difference between right and wrong. Sin also results in selfishness so we wound those around us.

And sin scars our self-image so we think less of ourselves than God intended. All of these results from sin lead to "bad things" in life. A second reason for "bad things" is Satan.

Satan exists to "steal and kill and destroy" John On a daily basis Satan and his demonic legions wreak havoc throughout the world. A third reason for "bad things" is we live in a broken world. Sin has permeated the earth which results in catastrophes such as hurricanes and earthquakes. Different sources produce different bad things. Historically the standard conception of God is of a being omnibenevolent all good.

Presumably this means that God is morally all good. So whatever moral evils exist in the world must come from humans.