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Surviving the Dark Season

What must good people do when bad things happen?

This is the third and final article in the series and it is continued from How Could God Let This Happen To Me?

Without doing anything out of the ordinary you may find yourself like Jeremiah you asking, ‘Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that fails.’ This is a desperate call, a call for help.

In the first part of the series we found out that if you need better answers you have to ask better questions. If you want uncommon answers you have to ask uncommon questions. In the second part we found out that bad things have been happening to good people since the beginning of time. We found out that the Bible promise victory instead of a good life.

Let’s land this plane by looking at What must good people do when bad things happen? Yes, what did they do? How do they do it before they crossed over to the other side?

‘Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issue of life.’

When faced with persistent calamity the most important thing is to guard and defend your heart from traumatic and toxic contaminations. It is to keep one’s mind consistently positive and in good health in a battle field. How do you do that? Here are few things that good people do when bad things happen.

Good people are real with their current situation. At this level your emotions are too close to the surface and they can be triggered easily, and get out of control. Honestly you are vulnerable and very sensitive. You have burning craving to get out of your problems. This is your weakness. Yes it is. You can easily be misled, abused or take advantage. It is easy to pick up issues with people and respond unwisely. So, try not to involve your emotions. Just do your best.

Good people defend their peace at all cost. They know that their current situation make them collect more than usual baggage. They take constant emotional and spiritual detoxing as a must. People are designed differently. Find out how you function. Some people are introverts, some extroverts. Prayer and meditation works very well for both types of personalities. Constantly have prayer time or quiet times. It may mean locking yourself in a quiet place. Take 10 to 30 minutes daily to release your emotions. Some people prefer to shake it off by means of music or chatting.

Good people listen to the voice within. Listen to God as His speaks to you. Have someone to bounce ideas before you make decisions. Before you make a commitment ‘sleep over it.’ Take some time before commitment. A day or two will help clear your mind or spirit to hear from God. As you read the story of David. It is repeated again and again, ‘David enquired of the Lord.’ He never did anything without asking God. Make this one of your habits. In this way you will not sell your birth right for a bowl of soup.

Constant emotional and spiritual detoxing is a must.

Good people relentlessly endure in patience. Remember that your dark season may last for a while. You have to endure, knowing that it’s not a quick sprint but a marathon. You are in a journey of your life. You will have to keep facing the same tough ugly situation on the eye daily. Be bold. Be patient.

Good people have the right team for support. Find good close friends and relatives who understand you personally. People who knows your vision and believe that they are part of it. Get rid of competition, strife and backbiting. In these unchartered territories you cannot afford them.

Good people operate in ‘safe mode,’ that is, they avoid people or circumstances or meetings that have a potential to violate their peace. ‘Safe mode’ means keeping to minimum your external involvements. Reduce comments or seeking comments or approval from other people. There will be small or even big success along the way, but these are not the necessarily the end of the war. Keep information about your victories or losses to few people.

Good people use mentors and advisors. Initially, just like everyone else, your mentor will expect your situation to drastically improve within a short time. As the situation continues, month after month, do not stop engaging with these people even if their input is not really changing your circumstance. Keep getting their support. Do not be afraid of ‘bothering’ them with your problems.

When things are not happening, it does not mean things are not happening.

Good people become part of focus groups. Create or be involved small focussed prayer or fellowship groups where you share the same problems and ideas, get counselling and pray for each other. Remember you are eating an elephant. It will take small consistent prayers to move a mountain. This is how faith as small as a mustard seed works. Use judgement. Avoid sharing your intimate problems with insensitive people who will spread it around. At times excluding your problems from certain prayer meetings can help.

Finally, good people read. Find books that can encourage you. Besides the Bible, read biographies and stories of people who went through similar situations and overcame. Watch similar movies and listen to stories of people who overcame.

As you do this, do not forget to prepare for the next season, and get ready for your promotion. When things are not happening, it does not mean things are not happening. God does not sleep or slumber. He is preparing you for the next step. Are you ready for the next season? As surely as the sun rise, it will come.

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Comment on Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People by Taka Sande

Amen Hildah,

We have to hear God and be lead by His, especially in tough times.

Blessings,

Taka

Comment on Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People by Taka Sande

Yes Tafara,

There are many reasons. Most people think that if the know the reason the pain will decrease, but what they actually needs is the will of God for the situation.

Blessings,

Taka

Comment on Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People by Berman York

Thank you brother for the article. How can I ask you some related questions regarding some of the scriptures that I don’t understand?

How Could God Let This Happen To Me

This is the second article in the series and it is continued from Why do bad things happen to good people?

Things can be so bad that sometimes you hear nothing, feel nothing and see nothing around you. You mental status becomes questionable, and your health will show it all. At times it’s not that there is no light at the end of the tunnel but there is actually no tunnel at all! What do you do? In the previous article we noticed that changing the question can make a huge difference, and may result in the answer we are actually looking for.

Since the beginning of time, bad things having been happening to good people. In the Bible we find people like Job, Joseph, David, Daniel, and even Jesus going through terrible times that are unbearable.

Rejoice not against me, O my enemy! When I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me. – Micah 7:8 AMP

During a party Job’s calamity started when his family, wealth and health were wiped away. Joseph was betrayed by his own blood brothers into slavery. To make things worse, he ended up in prison for doing what was right before God. After being anointed by the prophet Samuel, David thought he was heading right to the throne. However he spent the next 15 years on the run, sleeping in the bush. This is the man ‘after God’s heart.’ Why do bad things happen to good people?

George became a lonely widower at 40 after losing his wife and two children in a horrific road accident. As outstanding leaders in their church, George and his wife had been operating a small charity organisation, taking care of HIV orphans and vulnerable children in their community. After the accident, due to depression thoughts of taking alcohol to drown his sorrow kept tempting him daily. ‘Why do bad things happen to good people? What did we do wrong?‘ he wondered.

That year Faith received the women entrepreneur of the year award at national level. Her future was bright and all doors seemed to open for her. In order to spread out her wings internationally she got into partnership with an international company. Unknowing to her, they acted in bad faith. Two years later her company was taken from her, and she was arrested for acts committed by her partners behind her. It took another two year to clear herself. The legal battles and left her living like a pauper, and with a chronic illness.

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When Lisa found out her daughter was being abused and raped by her husband. She could not believe it. ‘William cannot do that to his step daughter. There must be a mistake somewhere.’ She thought.  ‘Perhaps my daughter is confusing him with someone,’ she went on thinking. What will her friends in church say? If it’s true, William will be sent to prison and they will have no source of income. Tears continue to pour out as she lay on the couch in deep thoughts.

Many evils confront the [consistently] righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.  He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken. – Psalm 34:19-20 AMP

Perhaps you made some bad choices that put you in a very bad situation. And you are being tormented day by day, despite the fact that you have asked forgiveness many times. The consequences of your decisions have become unbearable. You ask again and again ‘Why do bad things happen to good people?’

Actually the Bible does not promise ‘good life.’ It promises victory! And there cannot be victory without a war, or mountains without valleys. It means the Bible promises war (John 16:33), and victory. This is not victory in our terms but in His terms. The important question is ‘What are God’s terms?’

The aim is not to just win the battle but to win it in an honourable way. The aim is not to just fight but to fight God’s way. And He will say ‘you have fought a good fight.’

This series will continue in part three (of three) as Surviving the Dark Season: What must good people do when bad things happen?

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Comment on Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People by david jack chisvo

So God will wipe away our tears. So satan’s charge sheet will be complete. So God will say even in times of tribulation you gave your all

Comment on Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People by Tafara

There are so many reasons in scripture why bad things happen to good people. Those are not all the reasons but at least we know some. The devil, ignorance, sin etc

Comment on Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People by Hildah

It is so true what you say here as it’s easy to say why me ? But his word in Psalm 5:8 says “lead me oh Lord in your righteousness because of my enemies, make straight your way before me.” So though hard if you have a good standing with God when things go wrong you are able to say Lord let your will be done and say “teach me your way oh Lord, lead me in a straight path” (Psalm 27:11) and when you listen carefully you can hear him speak and direct you to the right way to handle things.

Be blessed.

Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People

This is an ancient question that every person who ever lived asked at one time. This is one of the most difficult questions in all of theology. ‘Why would a God who is all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful allow bad things to happen to his good people?’ It does not make sense, does it?

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. [II Cor. 4:17.] Psalm 30:5 AMP

I believe the correct answer to the question is not meant to make sense, because it would involve eternity. The correct answer is beyond our senses. It’s a question that if God answers you, you will not understand his answer because His answer is in a different dimension. You will not comprehend it. When God answers most people will be not ready, or not listening, or too absorbed in their misery to hear God’s voice.

Nevertheless these questions still remain. How could God let this happen to me? Why wouldn’t God help me and stop this pain? I am His child. Why do bad things happen to good people?

Today I have a different perspective to this question. Perhaps you should be asking, ‘What must good people do when bad things happen?’ ‘If I believe that I am a good person, then what must I do when bad things happen to me?’ This is a question that gets attention from God because this question demands actions of obedience from us. You cannot demand answers from God on your own terms and expect to get them. However if you ask for direction He will give you. If you ask for clarity it will be provided.

God wants you to take action not to cry and howl like everyone else. So which question are you going to ask: “Why do bad things happen to good people?”, or “What must good people do when bad things happen?”

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It is better to take two steps in the right direction than a kilometer in the wrong way.

Few times I also went through terrible times. Dark agonising times that threatened even the foundations of my faith. When you are in this situation you seem to see the bad guys having party after party. And you ask yourself, ‘But I am the good guy here. I have lived all my life according to the book. Following your will with all that I have.’ In this moment you will be tempted to question your significance and your relevance.

In pitch darkness two illuminated steps are worth more than a kilometer.

Surrounded by darkness, God challenged me to ask ‘a better question.’ This is the question I asked, ‘What do good people do when bad things happen to them?’ It was answered by a very small light showing two steps ahead. In pitch darkness a small light means a lot and two steps are worth more than a kilometer. After these two steps, you will see the next two steps. This would continue day after day. With time you will find that you have walked a kilometer in the right direction, two steps a day. As seasons pass I began to see that I was in a tunnel and the light at the end of the tunnel became visible.

This series will continue next time in part two (of three) as How could God let this happen to me? 

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