Composer

You know the phrase, "everything happens for a reason"? I was thinking about it and I don't know if I'm a buyer. It seems when this expression is most commonly used it is referring to when a bad thing happens, that is out of our control, and people are trying to make sense of it. I would also dare to say they are figuring it out in relation to God and his plan for us. Hold your breath we are going deep:)!!

Do we take this path of thinking so it is easier for us to buy into the idea of God being a loving father and doesn't want us to suffer but orchestrates bad things to happen for our greater good? It may be me, but this seems a bit contradictory to the whole concept of God being all good and loving. As I understand how love should be, and I think I have convincing scriptural evidence, love is strictly excluded from the company of manipulation and coercion. So if God is love, then he would not manipulate our lives even if it is for our own good. I don't think God plays by the rule, the end justifies the means.

So I don't think God is the composer of bad happening in our lives. I and all humanity have our free agency and we create the state of the world in which we live in. Bad things happen because people make bad or unpleasant choices, or things just go wrong and we are affected. So my point is to not confuse the occurrences of the world with the happenings of God because he is able to take a negative and turn it into a positive in our lives. THAT is LOVE. THAT is GOOD.