Question 354: Is The Love Of YHVH Towards Man To Be Interpreted Individually?

Answer:

This question has often disquieted believers under affliction. It has often appeared to the godly man, as it did to Job, that the children of YHVH fare no better in the world than the wicked. But we are taught in a multitude of passages in the Bible, that YHVH does know and care for the individual. Moshiach was very explicit on the subject. (See Matthew 10:29-31.) The promise in the New Testament to Moshiach's followers is not of prosperity, but that they shall receive strength to bear their afflictions and that those afflictions shall work for good to them. Our prayers would be simple mockeries if we did not believe in YHVH's care for the individual. The believer, like the world-ling, is subject to natural law and other things being equal, a blow that would kill a world-ling would kill him. It is often difficult to understand why so many afflictions fall to the righteous which the wicked escape, but YHVH does not explain these particular trials. He expects us to trust Him and to be assured that "He does not willingly afflict nor grieve" us and to patiently wait the revelation which will make all things clear.