God perfection does not mean everything ought to be all rosy. When sin entered the world with the first man, Adam, pain and suffereing entered the world. Our own sin has led to pain and suffering in our lives. Nonetheless, God does use this pain and suffering for good (for the Christian especially). In the non-believer, He uses it to bring him/her to the realization of how much they need God. In the believer, God uses the pain and suffering to draw them closer to Him as well as build their character and make them holy. While this seems like an incredible power trip on God's part, one has to realize that God is worthy of all glory and praise. In order to live life in a fulfilled manner, man needs to depend on God and follow God's leading. This worthiness of God is derived from His nature: that He is perfect, pure, just, self-sufficient(we depend on food to survive, but God survives on his own with no help), eternal, loving, and on, and on, and on. Someone who fullfils all these things deserves to be praised; there is none like Him.

It is hard to see all this: most people feel as if He has abandoned them or lives simply to screw them over. Or, they simply deny His existence. But God does not seek to simply screw us over. He has a plan for each life. In fact, God desires to give each of us an abundant life, one full of promise and hope. At times perhaps some of you have prayed and not had God answer, or maybe He answered in a way you didn't like. I've had this happen to me. While we don't like this answer, or lack of it(seemingly), it doesn't mean God isn't there. God is everywhere at every moment. What it does mean is that your prayer is being answered according to God's will, not ours. God's will is being worked out constantly. All of History and the future is and will combine to lead to a specific Goal of God's: To bless the people on the earth, and in doing so, bring glory to His name.