The religious men – the imams, rabbis and priests – declare we cannot know the mind of god. We cannot hope, nor should we attempt, to understand his wisdom in dealing with the world.
In one instance he heals an elderly, terminally ill patient, in another he allows a child to be crushed beneath a car. And this apparent choice of who to save and why is not the only mystery. Even the scale of his dealings is a mystery to us. Why he permits hundreds of thousands to die in a tsunami on one side of the world whilst on the other he saves a few hundred in a plane about to go down is also beyond human understanding.
All we are told is that he actively prevents evil and suffering befalling some, and permits it to befall others (presumably through inaction, since it is apparently impossible for god to commit evil). In either case we may ask why but should not expect to understand. We must accept the mystery.
In his infinite wisdom, god has a master plan that is unfolding according to his will. We should not concern ourselves with the unfathomability of his plan, but only believe and obey.
However, it is not good enough to posit a being who acts in a way we cannot explain and then ask us to bow down and obey it. If you are going to posit a benevolent almighty being that is responsible for our existence and directs our fate, and then have us respect not to mention worship this being, you had better have all the answers ready.
Perhaps the only answer we need is the one that comes to anyone thinking half-critically and who also possesses a shred of self-respect: either such a being is malevolent or in someway disturbed; or it does not exist.
We can take comfort, however, in the event there may be creators. If there, they are highly likely to be well intentioned and benevolent rather than malevolent and narsicistic, and to therefore have a morally justifiable reason for creating us. To paraphrase Arthur C. Clark (Rendezvous With Rama), beings who have survived long enough to develop the capability to create us, must have correspondingly developed morals. These would without question include a guarantee of our agency through prohibition of intereference (on their part) once the laws of Nature are set in motion, as well as a revulsion of worship and praise, let alone obedience on threat of punishment.