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    So many have asked why bad things happen to good people. Most often it is because of the misuse of free agency. But God is a wise God, when we get hurt by others, He will use our trials and challenges for learning and growth. And because God is a just God, His justice system will punish those who abuse their free agency. Let’s say you’re being bullied at school. God cannot take away the free agency of the bully, but He can make you strong enough to endure what you’re going through, brave enough to tell someone about it and smart enough to learn from this experience. Furthermore, if the bully does not repent, our Heavenly Father will make sure he pays for what he did to you in the next life.
    Though others have their free agency to hurt you, you have the free agency to choose whether what has happened to you will destroy your life or make you stronger. We always have a choice on how to act when others’ behavior affects us badly.
    Free agency not only brings difficulty when people abuse it, but it brings opportunity for us to prove to our Heavenly Father that, no matter what happens to us here on Earth, we will achieve this quest. Every king or queen has hard choices to make when others in their land are making poor choices or trying to depose them. Similarly, this quest is to prepare us for our eternal reward as heirs in the Kingdom of God. We will need to learn how to act when others choose unwisely.
    With your power to choose, you are strong enough and gifted enough to act wisely and choose how your trials and challenges will affect you.
    Some of the acts done to you by others abusing their free agency have probably really gotten you down. Remember, God would not have sent you here on Earth if He didn’t believe you could overcome anything with His help. If you are at the point where your feel like you’re losing your grip while scaling a mountain (difficult trials) trying to reach better heights, extend your hand and ask God to help you. Our Heavenly Father will do everything in His power to help you without intruding on your free agency or that of others. Trust Him and believe that He has your best interest at heart.
    Our Heavenly Father is very aware of the pain that we can feel because of our poor choices or the poor choices of others. This is why He is placed so many tools on Earth to assist us. One of them is the shield of faith. Faith that God will deal justly with those that harm us and faith that we are strong enough to climb any mountain placed before us. It is essential we have faith that God knows what we are going through when we are hurt and that He will send us exactly what we need when we ask.
    God has made sure that we have people around us that can help us when we are struggling. He has made sure that we are strong enough, especially with His help, to get through anything. With that said, be careful where you place the blame when bad things happen to you, for your view could be clouded and darkened.
    Blame game
    One of Satan’s biggest tools to thwart our divine nature and individual quests is to convince us to play the blame game. Satan wants us to blame God for all the bad that happens in this world. He wants us to blame God for others hurting us when they chose to abuse their free agency. Remember, God cannot take away the free agency of any human—no matter how evil that person is.
    Watch out for Satan’s Fiery Darts of Lies!

    If Satan succeeds in convincing us to blame God for the choices of humans, He may also convince us to take God out of the picture. If we take God out of the picture, then what happens to our quest, our divine nature and our individual worth? Those will also be tossed out. The day that that happens, we truly will be wandering aimlessly in a dark world.
    Let God’s actions be accounted unto God, and man’s actions be the responsibility of man. Do not blame God for what man has done. Every human on Earth has the freedom to choose to be good or bad. Don’t