With all this Evil, is there a God?

Every day we either see or hear about innocent people suffering for no apparent reason. These ongoing disasters force people to believe that there is no God. If He did exist, wouldn’t He do everything in his power to stop the chaos in this world? People have come to believe that what God stands for isn’t what is said in the bible. As humans, we have put God up on this pedestal, and have high expectations of what He is capable of doing. When God does not meet our expectations, we begin to underestimate his powers. If indeed God does exist, why does He hesitate to help when some innocent child drowns in the nearby river? If God put us here on earth to do good, why would He allow evil in the world?
In contrast, God may exist but allow for evil in order to teach us humans a lesson. Evil may bring to our attention, that there is no unnecessary suffering in this world. Imagine having to run 3 miles in the scorching heat without water and no break. At the end of the run your coach hands you a bottle filled with ice-cold water. I bet that water tastes good. Now, picture those 3 miles with 10-minute intervals in order to drink water. After those 3 miles, that water doesn’t taste as refreshing. Your coach allowed you to suffer so you knew how to appreciate that water at the end of the run. In order to experience the good life, we may need to be exposed to a little suffering, for the outcome could be beneficial. We appreciate more in life when we see the cruelty some have to face. Now this objection does raise the question of why so much suffering, what is the limit? We can conclude God exists if there was minimal suffering, yet this much pain makes us question his presence. Some argue that it is not God’s job to help the suffering. It is our chance to show our medal, and help the unfortunate people in this world. He wants us to do something. God gave us freewill. God put us here to control our own universe; we have the choice whether to participate in this evil, or to stop it from occurring. We are a product of our own sins.
Our knowledge of good depends on our knowledge of evil. We may not distinguish good and bad if we aren’t introduced to both characters. In order to know good, we must know what creates bad; therefore we can conclude which makes us feel better or worse. We only know what good is, for the presence of evil gives us an emotion we recognize as uncomfortable. Consequently, we then know when something feels good. God allows us to feel and live with evil so we know what good we need to deliver to this world. If we weren’t introduced to the problem of evil, we would never know how to form an organized world. Seeing evil occur, gives us as humans the chance to renovate this world for the better, without trial and error. We learn what the world needs from the apparent evil. However, we cannot say that good depends on evil, but it is easier to value our lives with a contrast.
There may be this underlying plan that God has in mind, that humans may not understand. As Ivan claimed in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s why is there evil?, it’s not that we don’t accept god, it’s the world created by Him we don’t and cannot accept. God’s nature is what it is. We should abandon this journey of understanding Gods way, and just let it happen. God may be stepping back because we are stepping back and not doing something about this present evil. When people put their faith in God, they misunderstand what faith truly stands for. God doesn’t exist for us to place all our stress and problems on his shoulders. It’s the faith we have in ourselves that can truly make this world a better place. If we relied on God to do everything, there would be more problems in the world than there is today. To make a better world, we need to learn and trust ourselves to do all good and be all-powerful. That faith that God implanted in our souls is the faith we need to count on to eradicate evil. Therefore, I believe God exists in each and every one of us.

What do you guys think?