If God is good, why doesn’t He just eliminate suffering?
It’s the question I’ve thought about since a kid, wrestled with as a teenager and lived with throughout the pain I was going through when heavily oppressed and depressed.
And while there are no straightforward answers to this question. Let me humbly offer you three perspectives/realities that have helped me through times of difficulty.
Before the cross, Jesus took three of His closest disciples to witness one of the most vulnerable moments of His time on earth.
There at the olive grove, the Garden of Gethsemane, He desired to share His wrestling with God with common men, fishermen to be precise, whose strength in the hour was insufficient to keep them awake.
He spoke light into darkness,
Shaped the earth and the universe.
He commanded every living thing,
Coloured the sky and the earth.
It’s a strange Easter. Today, Christians all around the world remember the death of Christ on Good Friday which culminates on Resurrection Sunday. But this year its done rather differently. The pews are empty, there is no mass gatherings. Each person stays at home engaging through services online: breaking bread with their family, remembering Jesus death rather solemnly. AsContinue reading “The Cross and Coronavirus | Good Friday for us Today”
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