Isn't it true that we're stumbled by suffering all over the World. Its not just the believers who curse at God when disasters fall and they ask why can't a good God prevent or do something about it? Actually we secretly ask ourselves the same thing not knowing what to reply. Most simply turn back to faith and believe that all this has a greater purpose in the greater picture of God and His kingdom thought not understanding. And because we don't experience it 1st hand, it is much easier to brush it aside and ignore it.
What I want to say is suffering is real and it happens to EVERYONE. At certain points of your life, you'll go through different degrees of suffering/pain. In the Buddhist teaching of 生老病死, the 病 is more effectively translated to suffering/pain. It is a process that people go through and grow in. No one grows in comfort, but in suffering do we reflect and actively grow out of the suffering. However I do not deny that it too have caused many wayward thinkings and have caused more suffering by extreme people. What I want to point out is there is a need for suffering in this world for us to grow.
I too have a period of time in my life when suffering was real(not that its not now) and I can't help looking to God and asking why. I can't help asking why can't he do something about it. I can't help wondering what a good God has in relation to the bad things that are happening to me or anyone else. I cannot explain fathom those great thoughts and as I wallow deeper into self pity and sorrow, the further I walk away from God. Together with the doubts already in my heart, my mind played a symphony of how this God is not real and that what I'm believing all this while is merely something that I deliberate myself to believe in. Further and further I walked. Further and further I got away from delivered. The suffering never really lifted and it was always upon my shoulders. But a book came along named 'THE SHACK". It brought me to a new realization of who God is and what He is doing through all this suffering.
To cut it short, A man lost his daughter to a serial killer of young children. He then one day got a note to go back to the place where she was killed by God. Wondering if it was a cruel joke, he went back wanting to face 'the great sorrow'. He met God there and God changed his perception and his life. He ultimately faced up to the suffering and got back into right standing with God. A recommendation to all. Discover for yourself who God is and what He wants to do with suffering through you. There's a great lesson on forgiveness in there too. =)
This book like I mentioned in my previous entry is why I finally came back into the presence of God again and seeing for myself what I've missed out on and though I may not have totally relinquish my suffering, I'm moving towards it allowing His spirit to change and mould me. Oh and remember, He may seem far when you're suffering but actually His right there.
Father I thank you for the suffering you've brought me through. You may not take away those moments from us but You have always been with us. Lord I can only ask that you teach me and enlighten me on this and help me to reach out to a World filled with suffering and help them see that You are still working in the midst and that You have a great plan for Your people. In the name of Jesus, Amen!
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