Does God Give people Cancer?

If you ever hear someone say that God brings evil upon anyone and refers to Job in there defense, remember this. Satan is the one who did all the "bad stuff" to Job. God said to satan, "He is in YOUR [satans] power." (Job 2:6) Job's perspective was that God did it, but He was mistaken. The author of Job, the Holy Spirit, doesn't really highlight Job's incorrect theology. Job's character is what the Holy Spirit highlights. God doesn't cause bad things. He allows them so that He can demonstrate His infinite kindness through difficulty. God didn't do the "bad stuff." He did, however, give Job more than He had before.

When "bad things" happen, God is, at most, responsible for allowing it, but He is so big, so good, so gracious, and so powerful that when He turns it around, He makes it look as if He did the "bad stuff" when, in fact, He only allowed it - to make you victorious and demonstrate His goodness.
Now when we find ourselves in difficulty, rather than saying God did it, we can think of the Israelites when they were set free from Egypt. God did not lead them through the way of the Philistines for He knew they would turn back. (Exodus 13:17) He sent them through the Wilderness of the Red Sea. God is able to do anything, but He also knows our frame and our ability to yield to the mind games of satan. (I call them mind games because satan has no power. All authority belongs to Jesus.) My point is that God will only allow a trial if He intends to demonstrate His power and goodness through it. So we can rest in knowing He is good and He sees the end result and it is good. God is good!!! I love that sentence.Trials are opportunities for the beauty of God to be seen.

I don't like it when people say God ordains evil. He's perfectly good. I realize that His ways are higher than ours [in terms of how one defines 'good'] (Isaiah 55:9), but there are some things we know are evil, like illness and sin [These two are spoken of as equals in Psalm 103:3]. Here's a question that demonstrates my point: If God "gives" people cancer, then why did Jesus, who is the perfect reflection of the nature of God (John 14:9), heal everyone [in scripture] who came to Him? What is seen in scripture is different from our experience so scripture is the real truth here. God's nature is to heal. (Psalm 103:3) I am no "prosperity gospel" believer, but there is an experience in scripture that contradicts our current experience in many cases. I'm sticking to what I see in scripture. Suffering is a part of the believers life. It brings fruit, blessing, and victory in Jesus, but there is nothing in scripture that equates this suffering with sickness, quite to the contrary.

God is willing that none should perish but all come to repentance (2 Peter 2:9). Some perish and never come to repentance. This tells me that some things that happen are not in God's will, and some things that don't happen are God's will. I'm perfectly satisfied in knowing He's good in everything and He's so big that He'll cause everything demonstrate His goodness even if it wasn't His will (Romans 8:28). While I really like reformed theology [It emphasizes God's bigness and our inability to get to Him], this is why I don't call myself a Calvinist.