- Why is there suffering?
- Part of human existence – do not theologize all suffering
- Corrective – when everything is going our way – we go our own way
- Constructive – “I would not be the man I am today if I had not gone through what I did.”
- So that God may be glorified – ie the blind man in the book of John
- To show the world and Satan that people love God because of God, not because of what He gives them
- ie, God’s people trust God
- I f we cannot face pain what whill others do?
- Christianity is not how to escape life’s difificulties, but how to face them
- Chrisitanitiy is not a n insurance policy agains pain and suffering
- God uses pain and suffering ot make s stronger, better, and wiser
- Romoving pain would be removing one of the great levers God uss to reach a person and say "Hey, I wanted to talkd to you."
- Natural disasters:
- God uses these as a big trumpet to tell us we are not the masters of the universe or of our own fate
- God holds back sin and suffering to a point we cannot appreciate
- If he did we would be in Hell completely
- Pain and suffering are there to show how much we need and depend on God
- God does not ask us to answer all the questions, He asks us to trust Him
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