Why The Innocent Suffer

By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
Raphael Okechukwu Nweze

1. Ignorance. People suffer out of ignorance, when they do not know the cause of their problem, what to do or how to do the right thing.
2. Negligence. People suffer when they neglect to do the things they suppose to do or say, or neglect to do it the way it should be done. For example, people neglect to pray, observe quiet times and do spiritual practice. Therefore, they remain poor in spirit. Because they are poor in spirit, they are easily manipulated by evil spirits, demons, ghosts and black energies (forces of darkness).
3. Karma. Nemesis follows people because of their actions in the past lives and/or in the present lifetime. “Whatever a man sows, that he reaps.” – “The measure you give will be the measure you get.”
4. Manipulation. The evil spirits manipulate people to put them in bondage, into hardship and difficulties. The Armageddon is already on, and people do not know it. This is because people are spiritually dead (ignorant, blind, deaf, dumb and lame).
5. Environment. Whatever happens in an environment automatically affects the people within the environment.
6. Dependants. An innocent person suffers when his dependants are being punished. God may punish dependants because of the evil they do. If the good man is the source of good things for the dependants, God may block the prosperity of the good man in order to punish his dependants.
7. Bad Leaders. Bad leaders mismanage both human and material resources, thereby causing so much suffering to people that people cry out, “Where is God?” Also, bad leaders put people into difficulties if the people refuse to support their evil ways.
8. Saving Others. A good man may encounter suffering in the process of saving others. Jesus died to save a lost world. Joseph suffered in Egypt to save people from famine. St Paul suffered to spread the Gospel to the Gentiles. Likewise, an innocent person may suffer in his effort to save others.
9. Attachment. The major activity of the spirit is thinking. It exercises this thinking by intention, attention and imagination. Whatever it desires (intends), focuses (attends to) or thinks on (imagines), it does and becomes one with. Therefore, it is bound to experience whatever it thinks. Observe how one becomes fearful simply by thinking that something is frightening. But the bold person does not think that that thing is frightening and is for that reason fearless. This explains why you are being asked to become passer-by. Do not keep yourself busy thinking or expecting unpleasant situation. Even where such exists, consider it as transitory and not you.
10. Experience. Usually, people do not learn by kindness. They learn mainly through pain and misery. Observe the third world countries, which have abundant natural resources and good weather, and you will notice that they fail to learn the lessons of life, even when they have made mistakes and suffered from the mistakes on several occasions. They tend to bring themselves down to suffering and starvation by strikes, mismanagement and strife. It takes them unnecessarily longer time to learn the bitter lessons of life and improve their lives. Experience Is The Best Teacher.
11. Free Choice Some of the hardship or earthly conditions being suffered by people were chosen by those people for their own experience, mercy, patience, love, understanding etc . The people who experience the unpleasant condition made the choice, while being guided by spirit counselors. In other words, destiny is not an unknown package being handed down by God to teach everyone. You should ask yourself, “How come that children say what their careers in life are?” The decision was made by themselves, under the counsel of Guardian Angels, before the children were born. It is .even amusing that the forget all the details in the process of being born. Here is a word of advice for those who are striving to change their destiny. If you change your destiny here on earth, when you get back to heaven you shall discover that the purpose of your life on earth has been defeated, not fulfilled. Therefore, you may be sent back to repeat a lifetime, while that last reincarnation shall be recorded as void, because you failed. It is necessary to state that in this world, what actually matters is not money and wealth. The real thing beneficial is knowledge and experience on this two is based mastery, if only a person accepts the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.
12. In Kindness Or By Justice What many cannot learn in kindness, they have to learn by suffering. God made things easy for man, but majority follow the imaginations of their hearts and thereby put themselves into trouble. That is why Jesus advised that man should not create more problems, ‘Sufficient unto the day is the trouble there of.’
13. By Easy Or Hard Way People learn the hard way, because they reject the easy way. There is no need for all the suffering in the world, and most of the suffering are man-made.
14. Necessary Tests At times, what some people call problems are not problems, but tests. God does not tempt anyone. However, you are tested to determine your maturity, just as a student is tested or examined to determiner his performance. The encounters may baffle us in the same way that examination questions are twisted to outwit the ignorant ones.
15. Necessity Some of the everyday troubles are just test questions. It might seem utterly stupid while you are here on earth. But afterwards, you find that you can apply the solutions, ideas and methods of the experiences in the greater life after you have graduated from the school and /or when you leave this world.
16. Refinement Also, some of the encounters and experiences which are considered evil may be needed to bring somebody to perfection.
17. The Express Way Whether you pass or fail in the examinations called troubles or sufferings, remain open-minded and happy. By so doing, you keep on rising in spirit, whether you fail or pass. Those who mainly fail are those who have not developed calm supremacy of the mind over life’s changing situations.
18. Maturity The more a person gets and handles more problems, the further he progresses and evolves in spirit and in truth. Therefore, the difficulties which a person encounters in life are not an indication that he is a bad person, or that he is paying for sins committed in the past lives. Again, I warn everyone as follows: do not add to any body’s problem, lest you come back to the earth to pay as much, and even more.
19. Humble Beginning Most of the great leaders of the world started from 'humble beginnings and humiliating situations, just for them to learn enough on how to assist those on earth. More so, as experience is the best teacher. At times, the best way to teach a child is to behave like a child. Some of what people call problems are not problems. Just like the parable of the monkey and trap. Whenever a monkey meets what seems to be a trap, it would break off a stick and dip it into the trap. The stick would get caught by the trap, but the monkey takes away its hand to safety. So are many things that confuse people on earth. For example, a person has accident and is crushed to death. Here on earth, people weep and mourn, but in spirit nothing, not even a scratch, happened to the person. Such is the wisdom of the Almighty, who is full of loving-kindness.
20. Examination You are here, on earth, to learn. In schools, questions are a bit twisted to test and assess a person’s performance.
21. Illusion The earth is a world of illusion, a world of dreams. You may have many hardships to face, many hard tests to pass, but you will surely triumph because victory is your God-given heritage.
22. Wrong Priority
    Of all the riches of the world,
    the most important is not money and wealth,
    but knowledge and experience.
    Blessed is he who abides by this advice.
23. Desires
    Your desires, especially when they are so many. You become angry when they are not fulfilled.
24. Attachment.
    By attachment, you feel you cannot exist without somebody, place or thing.
25. Disorganization.
    You disorganize your life and miss your blessings and favours when you disobey God and abandon his ways.
26. Torment,
    which is the effect of demonic possession and manipulation.