I've spent hours upon hours pondering the riddle, "Could God make a rock so big he couldn't move it?" The answer I just had to come up with turned out to be, "Yes he can. All he'd have to do is give the rock free will and he couldn't move it without its permission.”
Free will is also one of the reasons I’ve come up with to answer the more serious question of “Why God lets bad things happen to good people?” This of course doesn’t account for natural disasters (unless there’s some link between our treatment of the environment and the weather. But when I hear that, I think we’re giving ourselves way too much credit to our ability—“We have the power to control the weather.” I picture it said with crazy eyes)
My reasoning to account for why God allows natural disasters to happen is that like all systems there are laws that govern the weather, keeping it working smoothly. The weather is governed by laws God created in order to keep the world inhabitable. Without these laws the world as we know it would fall into chaos so in effect a devastating tornado is actually protecting nature not destroying it. Yes it is devastating, there is pain and suffering because of natural disasters but God doesn’t leave us during those times, he’s closer. He’s protecting us from the greater disaster not having the natural disaster would create and lifting us up carrying us through our pain and suffering. And he doesn’t just do this himself but through each other as well. I’m sure all of you—at least the women reading (they’re willing to admit it)-have been brought to tears by a story of kindness, which took place after a disaster. That is God at work. God can move us even if we don’t know He’s doing it, as long as we give general permission.
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