For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways.
Isaiah 55: 8
This passage is used so many times in case when we really cannot explain something. Why do young people die, get cancer, be sick, and why are unborn or babies die, why do accidents happen, and so many unanswered other questions. We do not know and then we blame it on God. It was His plan. God's ways are unknown and we will never understand why. This is life!
Why do we expect always a cause and effect? Life is not as logical, is not an algorithm. It would really be very boring to be that way. In the end behaviorist theory did not hold for everything. We do not always learn through trial and error, or at least sometimes do not have to try at all. We can think and figure it out without trying it actually. We expect a logical explanation for everything, but sometimes there is no logic in things that happen, and might be the explanation that is we do not like much. Cancer happens because there are bad cells in organism, accident happens because the person is in that place at that moment, death happens because we are not immortal!
As for the way God thinks --- He might be using a different reasoning. Remember the parable of workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20: 1-16) when the landlord pays everyone with the same amount?! Oh, how upset were those who worked an entire day just to find out that they got paid just as much as the ones coming in the last hour. Those who came last were paid first and were paid just as much as those who came first early in the morning to work. The landlord paid all from the goodness of his heart because he was sorry for those who did not have the opportunity to work and had to wait and almost lose hope that they will gain anything that day. The landlord/God used a generous frame of mind.
Don't we do the same when we give to charity, help out, pay forward?!
Is not because someone deserves it or (if we don't write it up for taxes) that we have a benefit from it. Is just because it feels good to be generous, to feel that one has from where to give.
Well, just think about those poor workers waiting to get the job. Think of all the times when you needed something but did not have the means to obtain it. Isn't that more painful than a hard work day?
Is good to have, but is better to generously give!
Sometimes is great to think like God.