What God Does About Suffering

Reflections

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God, Spirituality, Jesus, The Bible Project, Tim Mackie, Theology, Bibleproject, Meditation, Religion, New Testament, Bible, Mindfulness, Religion & Spirituality, Bible Study, Cheree Hayes, Christianity, Old Testament, Reflection

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🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Why does God allow so much suffering in the world? And is he doing anything about it? The Bible doesn’t answer all of our questions about why God allows suffering. But it does tell us a story about how God responds to human suffering. We learn that God has chosen to partner with humans to deliver communities from suffering, and that he chose to enter our pain by becoming human himself. Jesus took up the worst of human suffering, shoved it into a grave, and rose again to give us a new future––one that’s free of injustice and grief. Yes, our questions around suffering are valid. God hears us and understands our pain. Today, let’s tune into the question God has for us. As we face suffering in the world, will we partner with him to be a part of his solution?

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0:00.0	Why does God allow so much suffering in the world?
0:03.2	And is he doing anything about it?
0:23.2	Hey, this is Sheree at Bible Project.
0:26.1	In this episode, Tim is helping us understand
0:28.6	how the Bible speaks about suffering.
0:31.2	What's God doing about all this pain?
0:33.6	And how can we join him?
0:35.1	Following Tim's message, Michelle will read from Second Kings.
0:38.5	And stay tuned, because after the Bible reading,
0:40.7	we'll have a chance to reflect and pray together.
0:43.6	Listen in.
0:46.6	If you're reading your way through the long and complicated
0:49.7	story of Israel in the Old Testament,
0:51.6	you reach a definitive moment at the end
0:54.2	of the book of Second Kings.
0:56.2	Over a thousand years have passed since God
0:58.4	called Abraham out of Babylon to go to the land of Canaan,
1:01.6	where he and his family were supposed to be
1:03.6	a vehicle of God's blessing to the nations.
1:05.7	And so when that family ends up in Egypt as slaves,
1:09.7	God raises up Moses and then Joshua
1:12.5	to bring them out of slavery and into the promised land.
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