The Mystery of Suffering
Recently, this matter of the mystery of suffering has been upon my heart. I think suffering is always a mystery. It is a mystery to the unbelievers and it is a mystery to the believers. We often hear people of the world ask this question: "If there is a God and if He is loving, how can all these sufferings happen in this world" They try to put the blame on our God as if He has brought all the suffering we see around us upon this world. They do not know that if you read the word of God, you find that suffering is not God’s original purpose for mankind. On the contrary, God’s original thought for man is glory, not suffering.
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
