1) God gives us free will because He chooses to have a relationship with us.

2) However, if you choose to reject his invitation then you are exercising your freedom to choose,

3) BUT the Bible explains to us where that rejection originated and also its consequences. People frequently use the "why would a good God allow x,y,z..." to paint God as some sort of sadistic monster, and it is perfectly understandable to have such a reaction to pain and suffering.

4) God hates it too. But when mankind deliberately choose to go their own way and abandon his Law, his morality, his ethics, and his value of every human being, in favour of relativistic elastic morality which robs human life of its value and dignity, God cannot interfere, because he values our liberty as individuals.

5) The remedy to human selfishness, greed, corruption and immorality has been declared in His word and is available to ANYONE who decides to jump off the worldly bandwagon and turn to Jesus, who redeems mankind, restores our relationship with our Creator, and enables us to live according to HIS will and not our own, which is desperately flawed and corrupt.

6) Tragedies happen all the time, both natural disasters and those perpetrated by human beings. Both are the result of man's original sin. Adam had been given a mandate by God to steward the earth and all in it, but when he abrogated that responsibility he handed the earth over to Satan on a plate. This had far reaching consequences both for the natural world and for humanity itself.

7) Natural disasters, diseases, wars and man made religions that leave out on the one true God in favour of gods made in man's own image...not to mention the sense of alienation and inner loneliness, the lie of insignificance, the pride and greed and corruption of worldly politics AND religion.

8) That is why Jesus said the whole world was under the power of the evil one, but to fear not, because he had overcome it.

9) He could say this because, being God, he is beyond the restrictions of time, and because God had always had this redemptive plan in place. When the Lord's Prayer has the words "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as in heaven" it is a prayer that every Christian prays, that their own lives will reflect God's kingdom values and spread that kingdom wherever we are.

10) What are God's kingdom values? Matthew chapter 5 shows that God's order is very different from the way things are run for much of the time.

11) It is NOT the survival of the fittest as humanity views "fitness" but only those who are born of the Spirit, who receive Christ as Lord and Saviour, that are made fit for his kingdom.

12) John chapter 3 verse 16-18 again reminds us that this invitation is for WHOEVER will receive him. That is the start of our restoration to God's image. That is the start of rescuing this world from sinking ever deeper into a moral cesspool.

Come on see what you have?? Bet ya you will see this and back down.