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Why do the good suffer? – Fr.M.Kolbe - Stone - 09-21-2023
The day before yesterday someone asked me this question:
“The good usually suffer and the bad often do well. Where is the justice here?”
– The Lord God is infinitely just?
– He is.
– Otherwise He would not be God. – So the Lord of God for every
good deed He rewards and every evil deed He punishes. No deed, no word, no thought escapes His judgement.
– Is there a man in the world even the worst who would never do anything good?
– There is no such person.
– After all, everyone sometimes does his duty well, or shows mercy to his neighbour, or does something else good. If this man lives so badly that he deserves hell after death, when will the Lord God pay him some good for it… When?
– In that world.
– But there only hell awaits him.
– So here on earth
– Then is there any man even the best, who would never do anything wrong?
– There is no such man.
– Rightly, even a righteous person “seven times a day” falls. So if the Lord God wants to shorten the time in purgatory, or to give someone heaven at once, where will the levelling of accounts take place?
– Aha, that’s right…
– Exactly, the Lord God shows a special love to those whom He is already punishing in this world, because in Purgatory there is only punishment and long and heavy punishment, and in this world by voluntarily accepting crosses we deserve even greater glory in Heaven; hence the proverb “Whom God loves, He scourges”.
– So there is nothing to envy those bad people who are doing well; yes, they should be very afraid, because perhaps this is the payment for the little good they have done in life.
Knight of the Immaculate, February 1924