Topic: Suffering

When God’s ways confuse us, the answer isn’t to demand our way. It’s to look at what He is actually doing. He is always working, it may just be different than we think.

Real repentance, John insists, is ethical & relational—not merely emotional & ceremonial. The fruit tells the truth that the feeling often conceals.

We do not need to blame God for our pain or believe that He is absent in it. He took our blame & our pain when He became present to us in the person of Jesus Christ.

To get through your groaning, focus on the glory to come.

When our beliefs about God’s power, goodness, love, and generosity clash with the awful events that occur in this world, we feel unbalanced. … Hope is … Your Savior is bigger than your suffering.