There’s one question that many Christians struggle with on a regular basis:

Why does an omnipotent all-powerful God permit the horrible things that happen here on earth? If there really is a God, and He really loves us, why are there natural disasters, child molesters, innocent children suffering, or holocausts?

H.G. Wells made the following statement:

“Faced with what we see around us in the world, we are forced to conclude that either God has the power and does not care, or that God cares but does not have the power.”

I believe there is a third option that we must consider.

God both cares and has the power, but the chaos of man’s world demonstrates to all that help is to be found in God alone.

We have to realize that God’s main purpose is to glorify God! All the bad things that happen here on earth only demonstrate to the universe that we cannot do anything ourselves. Understand that the terrible shape the world is in glorifies God by proving that He is the only answer to our problems.

Psalms 76:10

10 For the wrath of man shall praise You;

So what do we put our faith and effort into? Is it making this world a better place? We have to dedicate our life to the one thing that cannot be shaken:

Hebrews 12:26-29

26 And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, "YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN."

27 This expression, "Yet once more," denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;

His greater purpose is for all of us to discover that there is nothing in life worth living for except Him. We have to realize that our kingdom (heaven) cannot be shaken, and recognize the condition of the world not as a failure of God, but as proof of our need for God.

To see how God cares, you have to accept the principle that we, and the entire world, are utterly helpless without God.