How have you handled difficult issues in your life? I used to ask more questions to God than I do now, but still struggle with why some who do great things for others suffer so much. Why do others who don’t seem to give a rip have fewer painful experiences? Author Philip Yancey has helped me to focus less on the ‘why’ but more on the ‘Who’ and ‘what’ I’m to be learning. He will NEVER leave me or abandon me, regardless of the circumstances.
“I started out as an atheist, utterly convinced that God didn’t create people but that people created God in a pathetic effort to explain the unknown and temper their overpowering fear of death. My previous book, The Case for Christ, described my nearly two-year examination of the historical evidence that pointed me toward the verdict that God really exists and that Jesus actually is his unique Son.” - Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
“As I have said, the Bible consistently changes the questions we bring to the problem of pain. It rarely, or ambiguously, answers the backward-looking question “Why?” Instead, it raises the very different, forward-looking question, “To what end?”We are not put on earth merely to satisfy our desires, to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.We are here to be changed, to be made more like God in order to prepare us for a lifetime with him. And that process may be served by the mysterious pattern of all creation: pleasure sometimes emerges against a background of pain, evil may be transformed into good, and suffering may produce something of value.” - Philip Yancey, Where Is God When It Hurts?
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