One of lifes many questions

One of the hardest and most challenging questions we all ask ourselves and others is, "Why do bad things happen to good people?"  When searching the gospel archives we find multiple explanations and reasons for this; down below is one reason or explanation given by Spencer W. Kimball.   
 "I am grateful that even through the Priesthood I cannot heal all the sick. I might heal people who should die. I might relieve people of suffering who should suffer. I fear I would frustrate the purposes of God.

    "Had I limitless power, and yet limited vision and understanding, I might have saved Abinadi from the flames of the fires when he was burned at the stake, and in doing so I might have irreparably damaged him and limited him to a lower kingdom. He died a martyr and went into a martyr’s reward, exaltation. He would have lived on the earth and could have lost his faith, his courage, even his virtue, and his exaltation.

    "I would have likely have protected Paul against his woes if my power were boundless. I would surely have healed his 'thorn in the flesh' and in doing so I might have foiled the program and relegated him to lower glories. Thrice he offered prayers, asking the Lord to remove the 'thorn' from him, but the Lord did not so answer his prayers. Paul many times could have lost himself if he had been so eloquent, well, handsome and free from the things which made him humble. Such a healing of Paul might have ruined him...

    "I fear that had I been in Carthage jail on June 27, 1844. I might have deflected the bullets which pierced the body of the Prophet and the Patriarch. I might have saved then from the sufferings and agony. And stopped the martyrs death and reward. I am glad I did not have that decision."
(Spencer W. Kimball, Tragedy or Destiny, BYU 1955).

 Here is a link to a recording of this epic speech, http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=702 .