Why Is There Suffering?
Today in church, I heard a very powerful sermon by The Reverend Michael Y. Oh, President of Christ Bible Seminary, Japan.
His passage was on Psalms 22, and it was much longer than this, but I was struck by his words on why suffering exists.
It disturbs us to think that a God like ours would allow suffering, and befuddles us even more to think that our God would ORDAIN suffering, but He does. Why?
God ordained suffering so that Christ could suffer -- for us. Suffering exists simply because Christ, the Exalted One of Heaven, who knew perfect pleasure and satisfaction, would take up the utmost physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual suffering so that the whole world would be silenced and that He would be worthy of worship and praise. Because Christ suffered, He is proved to be worthy, and no one's suffering can compare to His.
Amen.
His passage was on Psalms 22, and it was much longer than this, but I was struck by his words on why suffering exists.
It disturbs us to think that a God like ours would allow suffering, and befuddles us even more to think that our God would ORDAIN suffering, but He does. Why?
God ordained suffering so that Christ could suffer -- for us. Suffering exists simply because Christ, the Exalted One of Heaven, who knew perfect pleasure and satisfaction, would take up the utmost physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual suffering so that the whole world would be silenced and that He would be worthy of worship and praise. Because Christ suffered, He is proved to be worthy, and no one's suffering can compare to His.
Amen.
posted by leb at 6:28 PM
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