Why do bad things happen?

Everyone like to have the answer when asked a question.  It makes us feel smart, and wise, and in charge to have all the answers. But often life throws things at us that we don't have the answers for.  And no question perhaps goes unanswered more than the age old one:

Why do bad things happen?

Paul wrote to the church at Philippi from prison, and was faced with addressing this question.  He assures them that his suffering would be used to further the Gospel.

Whatever the case is, we must know that God loves us.  Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones summed it up this way.

"Whatever else may or may not be explanation of all these things that are happening to me, they are not in any way to be explained by the fact that God does not love me, or that God is acting in a manner that is inconsistent with love.  That is the thing that matters"  D Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Philippians 1:12 -Now then I want you to know brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel.