When pain comes our way, we want relief, Pronto.

When wrongs occur, we demand justice now.

When disease strikes, we expect healing immediately.

But what happens when God doesn't work within our time frame?

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall explores one of the hardest questions believers face.

Why does a good and powerful God remain silent when we suffer?

Chuck says the answer might surprise you. He titled today's message, When God Gets the Last Word. It's from

our eight-part study in the book of Second Thessalonians called Steadfast Christianity. I suppose we

could call today the now generation.

When pain comes, we want relief.

Now.

When wrong occurs, we demand justice, our rights.

Now.

When disease strikes, we expect healing.

Now.

From fast food to fast relief, we seek drive-through window solutions to the wide range of painful experiences we encounter in life.

Raised on 30-second commercials and 30-minute sitcoms, we want our life's problems to be packaged in small, neatly wrapped boxes.

But just when we think we finally tied the bow around our struggles, we discover our pain resurfaces and kicks out a side of the box.

We sit amid the ruined cardboard and crumpled wrappings, disillusioned, and sometimes despondent.

The letter of Second Thessalonians teaches us to think outside our problem boxes, if you will.

Paul emphasized with our struggles, answered some hard questions,

and provided perspective on the pain and suffering that we all inevitably endure.

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