If God Is So Good Then Why Do Children Get Cancer?
Explain it like I’m six years old
Well, Honey, that’s a really good question. God IS good and wants good things for you.
He gave you your life, a nice place to live, and a teddy bear to keep you safe.
He’s like Daddy. Is Daddy good to you? Does he want good things for you? Of course, he does. But does Daddy make choices for you? No, he lets you make your own choices.
Remember when we made hot chocolate and we told you not to eat the cocoa all by itself but you ate it anyway? Yeah, it was terrible and yucky.
Who decided to eat the pure cocoa, you or daddy? You did, of course. What did you learn? Cocoa is yucky without sugar and milk, that’s right.
Daddy could have stopped you from eating the cocoa, he could have held your hand so you couldn’t taste it. But would you have learned about cocoa?
No, you wouldn’t. Only tasting it told you it was bitter and gross.
God is like Daddy in this way. He lets you make your own choices so you can learn and grow. And you want to grow up to be big and strong, right?
You can do that by learning to make better and better choices.
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