The Recent Events in Japan

This question was posted yesterday on my facebook page "19,000 dead in Japan including little children, the kind you see every day? God planned this?"

WOW what a question that is. I have to admit I asked myself the same thing over and over again. Why would God allow this to happen? Did God allow this to happen? Why did 19,000+ people have to die and more lose their homes. Why do bad things HAVE to happen. Why can this world not be perfect? First of all this world is NOT perfect because of man's sinful nature. Because of sin things happen---I can go through a whole list of events in our world that effected people but then you would get really tired of reading and wouldn't get to the meat of this post.

But the question today is "Were the events in Japan God's Will?" My reply to this answer was the following:
"Surprisenly He did. We may not understand WHY things happen in our world but everything that happens is according to HIS plan. I wish the thing in Japan did not happen, I wish people did not have to die, I wish horrible thing...s did not have to happen...I wish things can be perfect. THe Bible says is Matthew 8:27 "that the winds and the waves even obey his command"...I believe that the tradgedy in Japan was His doing. Even during hard time sin my life--with my dad's cancer or even when I had a car accident and totalled my car I see that it was God's Will and for that I am at peace and happy to be in His will. The hard things in life draw me even closer to Him and help me trust Him more and have faith in Him...I admit yes its very hard at times and I want to get angry but getting angry never helps--prayer does. With the events in Japan all I know to do and all I can do is pray for the people there."

So every little thing that happens is the Lord's Will??? I do believe that some things that has happened in our world--the Nazi regime, 9/11, OKC Bombing was against God's Will because God does not want humans to kill others. But at the same time GOD prevented ALOT more from happening and even more people dying. He allowed some Jews to stay hidden, escape the concentration camps, and some come out alive. He allowed some people to get out of the Twin Towers and out of the OKC building. God has allowed several Japanese people to be found alive in the rubble.

We serve a good and a living God and He is in control--even during hard times.
I am also posting a link of an article I found: http://www.gotquestions.org/natural-disasters.html