suffering
Suffering
Suffering in Scripture is not explained away but inhabited — by Job, by the psalms of lament, by the prophets, by the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53, and finally by Christ on the cross. The Bible holds suffering together with the character of God without simplifying either. Every mature biblical response teaches the sufferer to speak honestly and to wait.
Further reading
- C. S. Lewis — The Problem of Pain, Geoffrey Bles (1940)
- Joni Eareckson Tada & Steven Estes — When God Weeps, Zondervan (1997)
- Philip Yancey — Where Is God When It Hurts?, Zondervan (1977)