In such a situation a person may even resent God asking why. He is making life so dofficult, especially when He is supposed to love His devoted servants.
It is important to remember that when making a judgment about a situation we should think about whether or not we have enough knowledge to do so. Something that is bad in our minds may actually be good, and we may only think it is bad because of our limited perception and knowledge.
For example, imagine a person who has lived all his life in the rain forest He has no knowledge of technology or civilizations and only knows what he has learned from experience and from those around him. If we were to take him and bring him to the city and showed him skyscrapers, cars and computers, he would be overwhelmed and overhead by the extravagance.
Now, if he were to be taken past construction site where cranes and bulldozers were demolishing a building, he would think that something bad was being done. In his mind the construction workers would be destroying a perfectly good building for no reason at all and this act would be considered senseless by him. But he is not aware that the old building is being torn down so that a better one can be erected in its place, and if he knew this, he would not think badly of the construction workesr tearing down the old building, he would be happy that that they are bringing something better and would now consider the destruction of the old building as something good and necessary.
The hardship that the people living around the site must bear having to look at the ugly torn down building for months, having their streets closed down and traffic tied, is only something temporary. some people may actually curse the construction workers for bringing this hardship on them but they not keeping in mind that these hardships will be followed by ease and improvement. Instead of viewing these things as hardship and becoming annoyed and angry, one could see these as a sign that soon there will be ease in progress.
An artist can relate to having people look at his work in its beginning or middle stages, and without knowing what the end product will be, they give unwarranted criticism. That is when he asks them to wait for it when it is finished. In the beginning or in the middle the work may not be pleasing or have much meaning, but once it is completed then everyone can see what he was working towards.
We human can attain only such limited amount of knowledge in our lives. So how can we look at a hurricane, tornado, flood, Tsunami or volcano and blame God that He is doing something cruel and unjust?
How can we know what His ultimate purpose is for all of these happenings? In the same way that the man from the rain forest would be unjustified in the viewing demolition of old building as wrong, we would be unjustified to view calamities of nature as cruel acts of God.
As for that matter, we should not judge blindly.. before thinking about it, because every small/big things that happens in life came with a purpose that only God knows and surely God know best! So lets just face it with patience and then surely something good will happen in the end.
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