Why did God allow this to happen to me and not someone else?

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As a pastor, I've had many conversations with people who struggle with the question of why God allows certain things to happen to them. It's a question that I've grappled with myself, especially when I think about the challenges my wife Susan and I have faced in our marriage and parenting. But the truth is, God doesn't ask us to believe in Him because He's on a divine ego trip, but because He loves us and wants us to latch on to Him in order to be saved from our sins.

I've come to realize that God's ways are not our ways, and He doesn't always intervene in our lives the way we think He should. Sometimes, He allows us to experience difficulties and hardships so that we can learn and grow from them. It's not that He's not powerful enough to prevent these things from happening, but rather that He's working in us to make us useful in His hands. As the Bible says, "If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others."

I've learned that it's not about why God allows certain things to happen to me, but rather about my response to those experiences. Am I going to trust in Him and His sovereignty, even when I don't understand what's happening? Or am I going to rely on my own strength and worldly opinion? As the Bible says, "You respond by saying, Well, I suppose I was expecting too much. That sounds humble to say, but it means that your reliance on God is gone, and you are now relying on worldly opinion." I want to be someone who trusts in God, even when life gets tough, and who focuses my eyes on Him, rather than on the world around me.

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