“Why is there so much suffering?” Almost Everybody
It is the question many ask. And you might have. Even Jesus, the Son of God, asked, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” while hanging on the cross. David, the man after God’s own heart, asked, “Why do I go all day mourning?” Job, the man God vouch for his perfectness, said when tested:
“Oh, that my grief was fully weighted, and my calamity laid with it on the scales! For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea”.
It is a question that left many unable to comprehend the existence of a living God. They struggle to picture a loving God and the suffering in the world on the same canvas.
We experience pain and suffer to various extent and for various reasons. The reason behind suffering seems to be that we have tolerated the intolerable, accepted the unacceptable, and coexisted with the inhospitable. We have tolerated, accepted, and embraced the suffering and injustice in our lives, in the lives of our neighbors and of those that are far. The things we passively tolerated we gradually accepted. The things we accepted became part of our life by default. Then it all got worse; suffering jumped off from our neighbors to us, and that which was far came close.
The reason we tolerate the pain and suffering in and around us is not because we lack resources, money, time, knowledge, or any other thing but we lack love for ourselves, for our neighbors, and for those that are far. We accepted it because we lacked faith that enables us to change the situation, and we coexisted with it, for we hoped not for better.
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