I was listening to 103.2 on the way home from doing the pre-school run this morning. They were playing a short from an interview with a guy called Christopher White (I think) who has just written a book called "The God I don't Understand".
He spent years struggling to make sense of suffering. Why does it happen? Why do some people suffer more than others?
Ultimately he came to the understanding that by trying to make "sense" of suffering and "evil" we are trying to impose a good thing (sense, rationality, understanding, logic) onto something in which there is and can be no good things (evil!). He came to understand that suffering and evil are things to be defeated and smashed by the death of Jesus! What a way to understand suffering!
So according to this guy, we should not be asking "why?" but "how long before God deals with it by ushering in the final judgement?"!!
Hi Julia,
ReplyDeleteThat book is by Christopher Wright. He's head of Langham Partnership, he took over from John Stott a few years ago now. He was just out in Australia too, he's written lots of great books I highly commend them all.
Donna (T)