The Suffering Drill

“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.”

There is no clever sentence that makes cancer, betrayal, or the grave tidy. Christianity does not explain suffering away. It names it as real, as not ultimate, and as unable to separate us from the love of God in Christ. The cross is God with us in agony; the resurrection is God beyond it.

This is another Release the Grace bridge: the problem of evil is the hardest objection. We refuse two lies — that God is absent, and that we can tally His reasons. We lament. We hope. We stay.

The logical problem of evil is not as fatal as it sounds: if God has morally sufficient reasons we do not see, there is no contradiction. The emotional problem remains. The Christian answer is finally a Person who weeps and a tomb that emptied — not a spreadsheet.

What simplistic answer have you either demanded from God or offered to someone else?

I will not lose heart. I cannot see the weight of glory yet. Be near. I look to the unseen Christ.