Why does God let bad things happen to good people?
God permits bad things to happen to good people to show that He is sufficient. The Christian life is not a rose-petaled pathway but a constant battle against Satan and the world. In trials, God provides encouragement and strength, and the same Lord who permits testings provides the strength to endure.
Les explains that the answer to why bad things happen to good people is that God can show us He is sufficient. He warns that anyone promising a rose-petaled pathway if you become a Christian is teaching falsely, because that has never been the theme of Scripture. The Christian life is like paddling a canoe upstream, a constant battle against Satan and the world itself. Yet God is the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who encourages us in all our tribulation so we may encourage others in trouble. The same Lord who permits persecutions and testings to come into the life is the same Lord who provides the strength to go through them. Early believers under the Roman yoke were immediately under persecution and were partakers of both sufferings and consolation.