Having been around for decades, this has become one of our culture's most common sayings, both inside the church and out. So very often in a painful or sinful situation, an ambiguous "reason" is given that's culturally attributed to an act of God Himself as a way to define the seemingly inexplicable. Cancer? God has a reason for that. Sinful family patterns that can't seem to go away? God probably has a reason for that...but is that really who God is? What does the Bible say, and how does it confront this cultural explanation so many of us have grown to live by?