Where Is God When Bad Things Happen?: Finding Solace in Times of Trouble

by Luis Palau

Suffering. Its stubborn inevitability prompts our deepest doubts about life as well as a profound search for meaning. Why do we suffer? Why must we lose the ones we love? Why must each of us face sickness and death? If God exists, where is God when these things happen?

International evangelist Luis Palau has seen desperate suffering in the lives of millions of people all over the world and has experienced it in his own life. In Where Is God When Bad Things Happen? , Palau helps those in pain come to grips with the crushing adversities of life by directing them to the limitless resources found in God. Without sidestepping the most difficult questions or slipping into the pat answers of a merely intellectual faith, Palau provides encouragement and hope to those who sorely need both.

Although helpful to readers already committed in their faith, this book is especially intended for those who are still searching and who wonder where God could be in times of trouble. Instead of an academic treatise on "the problem of evil," Where Is God When Bad Things Happen? is an empathetic exploration of divine action in the midst of terrible pain.

Genres: Theology

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Rushmi Sethi · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent spiritual book to overcome times of psychological trauma which I had read after I had suffered from a catastrophic disaster charity parachute accident for the first time in my life and this book had brought me comfort to survive through difficult times after bad things had happened to me due to a nasty Terrorist fired obsessed policeman who was jealous of my past rich celebrity rich friends whom he had burgled in the USA and captured on film by The USA Military and used in evidence against him in the largest American Prevention of Terrorism Court trial after I had published my first book, and as a result this man who had ruined my life for over twenty years now faced the longest prison sentence known to mankind for by the largest American, EU and London UK and Australian military courts for his direct racial hatred when he had derailed trains in India of my family relatives after his wife divorced him due to his guilty sentence for terrorism in Australia for causing the first missing aeroplane in 2014 and further acts of terrorism when he had gradually murdered my whole family members abroad when local government failed to detain him in prison and the minority of my rich friends abroad were gradually murdered by him so their lawyers of my deceased billionaire friends and even an American complete stranger who I had helped get released from prison in the UK when he was falsely imprisoned now deceased which I had not expected to be in his Will at all each had made sure that I was protected in the UK in their private Wills to preserve my right to a private life and to ensure that I could get happily married after my first book was published. So this was an excellent book to be a survivor of bad things.

[Jackeline Sthefany]

Me encanta este libro

[Elizabeth Wilcox · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is helping me to navigate my personal grief journey.
Thanks Dr. Palau.

[Daniely · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy buen libro, disfrute la lectura, respuestas claras a las preguntas, muchisimos testimonios, quedé satisfecha. Sin duda alguna volvería a leer otro libro del autor.
🌟🌟🌟🌟

[Annette]

Vivimos en un mundo decadente, en la tierra que va muriendo por los pecados e injusticias que nosotros mismos vivimos, donde la frase "Justos pagan por pecadores" aplica todos los días, aunque no lo logremos ver, Dios se encuentra de nuestro lado en cada momento, y cuando el "hombre" toma una decisión errónea y trae consecuencias, Dios toma la experiencia y de alguna forma la traduce en algo bueno, aunque para las víctimas es difícil entenderlo y muchas veces no lo conseguimos.
Sin embargo al final nos queda la decisión de lanzar los malos recuerdos y enterrarlos en el lago de la vida y no buscar ir a pescarlos pues solamente putrefacción encontraremos, es mejor seguir adelante, en busca de serenidad interior y en pro del bien común.
Y por último, en definitiva aprender a perdonar es clave para liberar el alma de la prisión del odio.

[Janell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book and all the author was trying to say to his readers. Great book for spiritual readers and those going through hard times.