Haiti Earthquake

I have heard people have said that Haiti's earthquake was God's judgement on a nation who made a pact with the devil 200 or so years ago. I am not going to debate the whether or not Haiti did or did not make this pact, because that is not the point. Stating that the earthquake was God's judgement for sin is saying that Jesus' cross was not enough for the forgiveness of sin. That is the problem with this statement.

First of all, God is good. It says it right in the Bible. "There is only One who is good (perfectly and essentially) - God (Matthew 19:17)." God is good. He is all good. Intrinsically good. God cannot give evil because He doesn't have it to give. You can't give away what you don't have. God is good. He cannot give away evil.

Second, all sin was judged at the cross. God does not have a problem with sin anymore. Jesus took care of that on the cross. Do we believe that or do we think that we need to do some work of our own to pay for our sins. Either Jesus paid for our sins completely or we are all screwed. Every word of God is flawless and I choose to believe the Bible when it tells me that Christ took our sin upon Himself at the cross. "He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an alter and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed (1 Peter 2:24)." By His wounds on the cross we HAVE BEEN healed. Not will be someday.

Since we have been healed and God no longer has a problem with sin why do bad things happen? Well, the devil only has power when we give it to him. When we give the devil the power of our faith, we give the devil access to our lives to steal, kill and destroy. The devil is the one who does the stealing, killing and destroying. This is not isolated to Haiti, this is worldwide. The devil has been given access to our lives in North America in one way through sickness and disease, it is not from God and it is not God's will that people die from cancer or whole list of other things, but yet it happens. Its not God's will that an earthquake would come and destroy Haiti, but it did. We need to stand in faith against these things. We can't just sit back and think that these things are God's will. They are not and in sitting back we are giving the devil the power of our faith. We need to stand on God's Word no matter what circumstances look like. Let God be true and every man a liar. Stand on the word of God even when everything looks as if it is contrary to it, because God is true even if every man is lying to you. As a body of believers we need to stand in faith for God's will. We are co-laborers with God. We are part of establishing God's will on this earth. We need to take our part seriously, and stop letting the devil have his way.

Third, God does not use sickness and disease or earthquakes to work for good. He does not use evil for good. The greek says more literally that God uses the good in the situation for good. So if someone gets sick and they call out to Jesus, God will use the good in that situation. Same with an earthquake etc etc. God never sends evil to accomplish His purpose and never uses evil for His purposes. God is good always, and He uses the good in all situations for good.

To say that this Haiti earthquake was God's judgement on Haiti would be in direct contradiction to the word of God. Whoever is saying these things should read the Bible they preach from. God is good and His will is good, and He desires you have Life abundantly.