Friend, if you’ve ever struggled with the meaning of your suffering, how a good God can allow it, and grapple with the burden of shame for your sickness or suffering, I hope this encourages you to intentionally oppose any simplistic assumption or self-promoting application of what you know about suffering, obedience and God’s will for your life. 💛
This is the magnificent tension that the gospel holds for us, “While moral evil cannot be done outside the bounds of God purposes, the evil is not morally chargeable to him since the perpetrators are responsible. Yet since all good impulses in the human heart come ultimately from God (James 1:17)—when things happen, they are directly attributable to him. “
– Inspired by and adapted from Timothy Keller’s “Walking through pain and suffering” and Norman Wright’s “Recovering from losses in life.”
I’m not a theologian on suffering, but I hope my journey in learning will strengthen you in your own path towards recovery ❤️🩹❤️🩹