God Can Turn Suffering Around For Our Good
This truth is best seen in the many examples of the
Bible.
Through Job’s suffering we see a man who not only
came to a deeper understanding of God but who
also became a source of encouragement for people
in every generation to follow.
Through the rejection, betrayal, enslavement, and
wrongful imprisonment of a man named Joseph,
we see someone who eventually was able to say to
those who had hurt him,
“You meant evil against me;
but God meant it for good”
( Genesis 50:20).
When everything in us screams at the heavens for
allowing suffering, we have reason to look at the
eternal outcome and joy of Jesus who in His own
suffering on an executioner’s cross cried,
“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
( Matthew 27:46)