Riding the Storm - Trusting God in Suffering
A prisoner from Auschwitz was saved from the most horrific persecution this world has ever seen only to take his life years later after finding no answer to his question, "Why?" A pastor prays at his son's funeral the truth found in Romans 8 that, "...we know that for those who love God all things work together for good...", but later admits that the internal struggle about losing his son left a far deeper mark on his life. The life we live is full of utterly inexplicable evils that beg us to ask, “Why?” The answer we often receive is like a door slammed in our face saying, “Here, there is no why.” How can one trust God in the midst of these sufferings?
Dr. Os Guinness provides a perspective on the problem of theodicy--the problem of evil--and offers some reflections on how to trust God in the midst of these evils.