Why does God not remove the world's suffering. Fall off a cliff and not die or break a bone would be a nice event, but it reality what would it teach us about real life and short coming of our own mortality. To live in a world where Terminator movie part 3 existed of a good guy sent to aid the family from another time period, never receiving wounds that heal quickly, yet the mortals that were wounded had to be mended and had to wait for their healing. Within the movie the satire of only be comforted by this incredible machine robot that could heal instantly. The Godlike robot wounds of incorruptibility. We wonder why people look at Christian comfort as one of why does God not restore, heal, and rebuild instantly the life of the believers. Why did Christ have to take the punishment of man on his shoulders as a man, with the marks of beating, the nailed scared hands and a sword in his side and to die a painful death? Adam did not seem to suffer beyond not being in Eden, yet the serpent would bite at his heels and his life would be upon the earth unto death, where his death would be the punishment of his sin in the garden of Eden. Adam's years of life must of seemed like eternity. Yet even so he would die as Christ would die. Christ then rose again because his crime was not against God but man? Christ would leave the earth and his disciples with no more power then what God would grant them in time of need, healing and so forth in the name of Jesus. People would be healed, and the word of God would spread like wild fire. Yet God did not stop tribulation from coming in fact some tribulation is because of God's power and correction in our lives.

Jesus turned water into wine, for his mother sake. Something done by the power of God. Yet it did not stop people from being sick and needing healing or the dead needing to be brought back to life. It did not stop Jesus from intervening in the storms of those in need for healing. Compassion through the storms. Yet people wonder why does God not fix everything so we didn't have to worry about it here on earth, because the earth is still rejecting Jesus. Even people of faith reject God's word at times. That the begining of any storm of a believer, let along nature's fury and people fury all tangled into one giant mess.

Now let's look back on Paul's life the author of the book of II Corinthians, everywhere he took the Gospel he faced real opposition and persecution. Persecution coming everytime he preached. He was thrown into prison, beatened and even stoned for preaching about Jesus. Yet in his ministry he seen people healed, in fact he at times were so fill with the Holy Spirit all he had to do was to pass by people and they were healed. Why did Paul face persecution and struggles. It was for the benefit of other believers and unbelievers. It was a testimony of faith of his own persecution of the church, before Christ, and his own suffering because of his faith. He seen Stephen stoned, before his converstion. Yet not until he meet Christ on the road to Damacus did he receive Christ as his own Lord and follow him, knowing that persecution would come to him, because he had been persecuter of the saints of God. God was not the author of the persecution man and the devil was. Man persecuted the saints because of their faith in Jesus, the devil does not like Christians. God and Christ had forgiven Paul when he repented.

Paul in his suffering found it helped others to know the cost of faith as well as the hope, peace and comfort of God's Holy Spirit working in his life. He knew the power of God was strong and not only that but the comfort in the middle of the storm. How many lashes before you cry out, how many rocks before you scream, and yet Paul a child of God knew the presence of the Holy Spirit in the storm and the sweet assurance of faith despite the cost.

If God's power was not real would Christians still be standing in faith today, I seriously doubt it. Yet knowing other Christians face persecution only enables one to say Lord teach me how to stand in the storm and know your comfort of your Holy Spirit. Let me be a witness for you.

Dear Heavenly Father, sin takes one further then they attended, but you also teach how to endure what we ourselves dish out as well as allowing God's Spirit to comfort me through the storms in life so others can see your power to overcome. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Romans 8:23-39 KJV
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.