Jeremiah 31:3-4

When things go bad, people here at MVNU (as well as in almost any church) often say, "Don't worry! God has a plan!"

God's got a plan alright. But as far as I'm concerned most of that plan is dealing with how to fix stuff we screwed up.

Here's how I see it: Just because God has a plan doesn't mean it's necessarily going to come true. An omnibenevolent God does not have a plan that involves his creation falling out of his good graces.

He doesn't have a plan that involves millions of people dying from a preventable epidemic like malaria.

God's plan was for a perfect world, and we screwed it up. Fast forward to the good news- he has a plan for redemption. He's fixing things now and using crappy throwaways like me and you to do some of it.

But when things go wrong, don't tell me it's part of God's plan. I think God hates suffering as much as we do if not more.