This next topic is a very unpleasant one for many in the Body of Christ to talk about, much less ever fully accept in their walks with the Lord. Whether we like it or not, and whether we ever want to fully face up to this reality in this life, every single one us, saved or unsaved, will have to face a certain amount of adversity, conflict, trials and tribulations as we journey through this life - with absolutely no exceptions to this cold, hard, brutal fact.
As a result of living in a fallen, cursed and imperfect world as a result of what happened in the story of Adam and Eve, every single one of us will have to face a certain amount of trials and tribulations as we plow through this earthly life.
Many Christians have either lost part or all of their faith in the Lord as a result of getting hit with some severe torpedo shots. And unless you have a full understanding and full knowledge as to why God will sometimes allow bad things to happen to good people in this life, you can have your personal faith in the Lord shaken to its very core depending on the level of intensity and severity of the storm cloud that may have just struck you.
The Bible tells us that God's people can perish for having lack of knowledge - and not having the right kind of knowledge to fully understand why bad things can happen to good people in this life, especially to Christians, can cause you to perish in your own personal relationship with the Lord if you ever end up losing your faith in Him as a result of not being able to fully understand why He may have allowed some severe adversity to hit you in the first place.
Per the other articles we have in the Spiritual Warfare section of our site, I believe that you can learn how to keep some of the adversity that may strike you in this life away from you if you can learn how to properly plead the Blood of Jesus for deliverance and protection, along with learning how to mesh and flow with the Lord on dealing with storm clouds that may attempt to come against you by learning how to engage with your enemy or adversity in the same way that David did with Goliath.
The Bible tells us that we have to learn how to become good soldiers of Jesus Christ. If you can learn how to become a good soldier of Jesus Christ and learn how to walk with God's anointing in your life, you can keep either a lot of these storm clouds from ever hitting you in the first place, or you can quickly defeat them once they do come knocking at your door.
However, as a result of living in this fallen and cursed world, even the best of God's true soldiers will still have to face a certain amount of conflict and adversity in this life from time to time. There is simply no getting away from it. And until we get the New Heaven and the New Earth after the millennial rule of Jesus from the city of Jerusalem, the curse of Adam and Eve will still stay in place on this earth, and as a result, we will all have to face a certain amount of storm clouds in this life - with no exceptions to this cold hard fact and reality.
What gets many Christians in trouble in this part of their walk with the Lord is not having a full understanding of why this has to happen to them in the first place, especially since they are now born-again believers who are serving a God who is supposed to be all-good, all-loving and all-merciful.
The first question many Christians will ask when they are hit with any kind of a severe storm cloud and trial is why? How can an all-good and an all-loving God allow me or someone else close to me get hit with such a severe trial or tragedy? How can God allow some of His own, especially the ones who are faithfully serving and following Him, get hit by something that at times will literally come right out of the pit of hell itself?
If God is our true heavenly and loving Father who has nothing but our best interests at heart, then how can He allow some of the following kinds of torpedo shots to come our way:
Your 16 year son has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness and has only been given another 6 months to live.
Your 25 year old marriage is now dissolving because your partner is trading you in for someone else.
Your 18 year old daughter has just been raped and murdered.
Your 4 year old son has just been abducted and raped by a local pedophile.
You have just lost all of your life's savings as a result of corporate fraud and greed in the company you have been working for most of your working life.
You have just lost three members of your immediate family in a fatal car crash or some kind of natural accident or disaster.
You yourself have been the victim of some kind of random and senseless crime such as rape, robbery or assault.
You just happened to be born into an evil and dysfunctional family where the mother and/or father will severely verbally, physically and/or sexually abuse you during part of your growing years in the family.
I could go on and on with some of the severe adversity that can hit anyone of us at anytime. No one on this earth is perfectly safe and perfectly immune from all of the different kinds of storm clouds that can come our way in this life.
When you really stop and think about this, and look back on some of the pure evil that a certain amount of people will have to face in this life, it is only natural to wonder how God Himself could allow some of these bad things to happen - especially to some of His own that have already been saved under the Blood of His Son Jesus Christ.
How can God just sit up there and watch some of His own take these kinds of pure evil torpedo shots? If God is all-powerful, and there is nothing that He cannot do, and He sovereignly operates on this earth, they why doesn't He protect more of His own from having to deal with some of these kinds of heavier trials