So many people will say that God causes suffering for a reason, or people are quick to point out that “something good will come from this” but I’ve always been unsatisfied with that notion. Logically, if everything happens for a reason, and if God is in control, that could also mean that Hod is making us suffer, which is cruel. How can that jive with the notion that God is Love?
I do know, and have experienced, that good can eventually come from hardship and suffering. But that doesn’t really help when one is in the midst of it all, and certainly not when one looks to the future and sees no end of the suffering.
People say trust that God will provide, but if I don’t trust, will he not provide? Will he not heal if I don’t pray the right prayers, or often enough? Do my little actions determine how God will respond to me? To others? Is prayer just a way to try to manipulate God into doing what I want?
These are my current thoughts.
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