Why?

[397 words] After the events at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, many are asking one question: Why? We live in a country where blame is the name of the game. We want to blame someone or something for the problems of our world. Some are blaming guns. Some may be looking for blame in other places. There might be some who are even blaming God. God does not eliminate problems in our lives. He helps us in the midst of troubles. Remember, Paul told Timothy that the godly would suffer persecution (2 Tim. 3:12). There are many people in Bible times that experienced troubles. The apostle Paul had his share. He details some of them by stating, “I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters,…