Perhaps you’ve found yourself asking these questions: Why does it seem that good things are happening to bad people? Why does God allow the evil I see in the world?
Some will try to offer you answers to these questions, but only God can. Why would anyone else’s opinion matter? To ask these questions is fine, but they should be addressed to God. When you do that, the Bible says He’ll answer you generously without finding fault with you. But when God responds, the Bible also says that you should believe what He says and not doubt Him. That includes the answers that may not be the ones you want to hear. Let those answers to your questions be sufficient.
What could possibly be some of those answers? I can only surmise, but here’s a go.
Why should good people have a monopoly on good things? I don’t even know how to begin on this one. I try to see the world through my Father’s eyes and when all of us are broken and fallen people I don’t want to be the one to decide who is “good.” And “good things?” Don’t get me started, even though my fallen nature may be praying for God to smite me with one or two of those J. But, hang in there with me now.
My bride would remind me that if “bad people” never experienced “good things” then they might lack an experiential basis needed to choose for God during the “Pilate moment” in their lives—the moment they are confronted personally with the question, “What am I to do about this Jesus who is called the Christ?” Who of us can say how God moves in someone’s life to prepare them to accept Christ and receive salvation? Could it be He uses “good things” to do that? If so, I’d give Him some distance and not meddle. Pray for the “bad people” to accept the one perfect gift of Heaven.
Also, I assert that you don’t know everything going on in another’s life, whether they are good or bad people. Good things may seem to bring them happiness but I assert that they don’t bring contentment. “Contentment is accepting from God the circumstances in which He has placed us, because we know that His presence, provision, and providence are far greater than . . .” anything we are or have or will experience. These and other priceless truths are found in Dr. Richard Swenson’s book Contentment: The Secret to a Lasting Calm and you might learn about your own yearnings which are more important than what you see happening to others. I couldn’t recommend this book more highly to you.
In the end, contentment may be what “bad people” have been looking for all along. In fact, you may already be content in many areas where they’re still looking. You may actually be “better off” than they, having already “won one” and not realized it. Don’t gloat. Pray for them, that God might use you to help reach them with Truth with a capital T.