How do you understand suffering
Help them understand that we live in a fallen world.It is your mind that causes your heart and being to connect to a thing in.One of the counterintuitive truths about suffering is that it prepares christians for more glory.•the suffering of the child leads to the suffering of the family •babies likely experience pain as undifferentiated badness coming from without, no matter what the source •children up to age of 12 verbally express their understanding of pain as a punishment for their inner badness and wrongdoingThat is like saying that i walk carelessly thru the house and bump my toe on some furniture, and it hurts.
It is hell if one just tolerates it.Remember your purpose and whom you serve!This is all the more important to remember in the midst of a culture that wants instant gratificationThis is the loneliness of suffering, when you realize that those whom you thought were in union with you, never understood you.I also found that reading many of the.
Suffering holds a message of comfort.We turn to our faith for answers, but answers don't come easily.Be aware of your suffering.If i had not been careless, it would not have happened.(1) communing with god by reading and meditating upon his word.
If you have been born into the family of god, you are a child of god.Finally, the message of the book seems to deeply resonate with the explanation given by god to job.Suffering is a result of the fall.That sometimes suffering comes because of sin.Yancey attempts to remind christians of their mission to do well, and to encourage those who are suffering with more wisdom and empathy than before.
Job accused god of falsely judging him ( job 9:20 );And in this vortex of conflict and contradictions, fulfilments and frustrations, longings, jealousies, and hatred, the mind is caught.While this does not make sense to human reason, the theologian of the cross simply takes god's word for it.