Food for thoughts - a passage from Case for Faith by Lee Strobel

How can a mere finite human be sure that infinite wisdom would not tolerate certain short-range evils in order for more long-range goods we couldn't foresee? Look at it this way. Would you agree that the difference between us and God is greater than the difference between us and, say, a bear? Yes. Okay, then, imagine a bear in a trap and a hunter who, out of sympathy, wants to liberate him. He tries to win the hear's confidence, but he can't do it so he has to shoot the bear full of drugs. The bear, however, thinks this is an attack and that the hunter is trying to kill him. He doesn't realise that this is being done out of compassion.

Then, in order to get the hear out of the trap, the hunter has to push him further into the trap to release the tension on the spring. If the bear were semiconscious that this point, he would be even more convinced that the hunter was his enemy who was out to caught him suffering and pain. But the bear would be wrong. He reaches this incorrect conclusion because he is not human.

I believe God does the same to us sometimes, and we can't comprehend why he does it any more than the bear can understand the motivations of the hunter. As the bear could have trusted the hunter, so we can trust God.

Understand? No i don't..haha.