It is a heart-breaking time for Sri Lanka, as we struggle to come to grips with the impact of the worst terrorist attacks to have hit our country in recent years. In moments like these, many of us will have questions to which there are no clear answers.
How can we find comfort and strength in such a time? We believe that these two resources, When Tragedy Strikes and Why Would a Good God Allow Suffering?, can strengthen and encourage you by giving you a biblical perspective of tragedy, pain, and suffering.
Our prayer is that these resources will help you find healing and anchor your faith in such a time, so that you will continue to trust God in the midst of tragedy.
“but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint" (Isaiah 40:31)
When Tragedy Strikes
Finding Security In A Vulnerable World
In the wake of tragedy some may question “Why did God allow this to happen?”,“What have we done to deserve this?”,“Has God turned against us?”, while still others may wrestle with the very idea of trusting in a God who would allow such pain and destruction.
What are we to think and feel when our own lives are touched by events of cataclysmic proportions? Will we lose all hope? Or will we experience, as others have, that there are ways to survive and even grow in the face of natural disasters, catastrophic accidents and violence?
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WHY WOULD A GOOD GOD ALLOW SUFFERING?
Life can be hard to understand.
It’s an old question. Four thousand years ago, a victim of personal, family, and financial reversals spoke to the silent heavens and pleaded, “Show me why You contend with me. Does it seem good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands?” (Job 10:2-3). The questions are still being asked. “Does God hate me? Is this why He is allowing me to suffer like this? Why me and not others?”
There are answers. Not exhaustive, but enough to keep our pain in perspective. Enough to show us how to put suffering to work for us. In the following pages, Our Daily Bread managing editor Kurt De Haan shows us that while heaven may not be answering all our questions, it is giving us all the answers we need to trust and love the One who, in our pain, is calling us to Himself. - Martin R. De Haan II
