WHY DO WE SUFFER?

Why do we suffer?  This age-old question has plagued generations of people throughout time.  Theologians, philosophers, religious gurus, psychologists and theorists have tried to explain this experience inside human nature with all kinds of explanations of suffering that can occur inside our body, mind, and spirit.  Suffering can come in many forms from physical maladies, political repression, emotional torment, economic hardships, mental cruelty and so on.  Can we accept that part of our human condition is to understand that every one of us at one time or another will suffer?  In the grief journey, we will experience one of the most difficult sufferings in our lifetimes because life has  ended for someone we love deeply and dearly.  We can actually physically feel like our heart has been broken. 

Still, our human nature will always question why do we ever have to suffer in the first place.  The answers to this ethereal question is written in the greatest story every told...in Scripture.  There are hundreds of stories inside this book about human suffering and how people in the past handled their suffering.  The bottom line is that suffering will change us in ways that we can’t realize until we experience it.  We either come out of suffering stronger in spirit or emotionally broken.  Ultimately, we don’t choose how we suffer, but we can choose how we handle suffering that changes what happens to the ending.   Rest assured in every story, that God is completely aware of what is happening to us in our suffering.   God sees our tears, and is closer to us than we could ever realize when we suffer.  Your suffering will strengthen you, change you, and empower you in ways you never would have been.  You come to realize and deeply understand that you are not alone.  God is on your side and is with you and in you in all ways and always.

"You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help.  This I know: God is on my side!"  Psalm 56:8-9


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