How Could A Good God Allow Suffering?

Suffering is inevitable. It's in Scripture time and time again—people crying out to God in lament and anger, praying for pain and grief to be taken away, even wishing for death.

But where our world has a way of brushing over suffering with bumper sticker phrases about strength and purpose for pain, God gives us so much more. He doesn't ask us to hide our suffering and mask it with joy—no, even he has suffered, like us, and he's with us in our pain too.

We don't share this as a way to promise "things will get better," nor to say we have an answer for why you're going through what you're going through.

We share this because we know suffering will come, and there's a hope in the midst of it all.

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