One of the hardest concepts for us to get our minds around is the fact that life has not been perfect since Genesis 2. We live in a world where we have an enemy called satan who comes to steal, kill, and destroy. On top of that, man has free will--which he has used to make some terrible decisions. If we aren't careful, we could allow these issues to overwhelm us, but God does not want us in a state of panic. Instead he wants us to do whatever we can to make this world a better place in spite of what's going on around us.

Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.