Based on Mark 7:31-37 If Jesus has all power, then why does he allow __________ to happen? I know the reason some of you joined our nation’s military is because of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. It was a question people asked on that day, and it’s a question that people continue to ask, especially when missions go wrong, when someone is injured, when someone is killed in action or in training, or when trauma is experienced and continues to be relived. If Jesus has all power, then why does he allow this to happen? I don’t know. He doesn’t always give us an answer. In Mark chapter seven, we read about a man who is deaf and mute, and we could ask the same question about that man. Why did Jesus allow that to happen to him? In this case, we do have an answer: so that Jesus could display his power and show us who he is—that he is the Almighty God. He used his power to do something about it. He opened that man’s ears and loosened his tongue, and immediately the man began to speak plainly and intelligently and hear with crystal clarity. The question we ask then is this: Why doesn’t God always show that power in our lives, with our tragedies and hardships and diseases