A question I hear fairly often is why God allows evil to exist. Either he isn't powerful enough to get rid of it or he isn't interested. Either way people struggle with the idea that a powerful and just God could let evil people get away with doing evil things.
While I won't solve the entire puzzle for you I want to offer one little insight that Jesus Christ, God's Son, brought to us while He was on the earth.
In one of Jesus' parables he describes a man who planted good seed in the ground. Some bad people came along at night and planted weeds and both came up in the field.
Matthew 11:28 "So the servants said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?' But he said, 'No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.'"
Jesus later explained that the seeds represent people and that at the end of the age the angels will gather everyone and separate the good from the evil.
He doesn't explain why they left the wheat and weeds together so I go with what the field owner said in the parable-that by rooting up the weeds prematurely you would also disturb the wheat. My point is that for God to go after evil in the way that is really just would be so disruptive to life on earth that it would be difficult to live and difficult to go about sharing the good news that God has made a way to get rid of evil in the human soul.
If you want to read about when God does begin that process of weeding out evil, read the book of the Revelation beginning in chapter 16. Life during that time will be very difficult to everyone.
God is patient and wants all to come to the knowledge of his Son Jesus. But God is just and when the time comes, evil will get exactly what it deserves.
Pastor Tom
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