What or Who Do You Turn to in Times of Suffering?

It’s unavoidable. In life we will experience pain and suffering, but who or what do you turn to, to handle these difficult seasons of life? We all want answers to this problem—answers that won’t destroy our faith but that instead, through a closer relationship with God, will make us stronger and wiser.

In his book Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, Tim Keller looks at the problem of pain and suffering through a biblical lens as he works through the challenge of one of life’s most difficult questions: Why does God allow so much pain and suffering?

“Looking back on our lives, Kathy and I came to realize that at the heart of why people disbelieve and believe in God, of why people decline and grow in character, of how God becomes less real and more real to us—is suffering. And when we looked to the Bible to understand this deep pattern, we came to see that the great theme of the Bible itself is how God brings fullness of joy not just despite but through suffering, just as Jesus saved us not in spite of but because of what he suffered on the cross. And so there is a peculiar, rich, and poignant joy that seems to come to us only through and in suffering.”

               — Tim Keller, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

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