God Doesn’t Waste Our Suffering and Neither Should We
Brian Fletcher
Romans 5:1-5
Introduction:
Great to see everyone on Easter Sunday. Pandemic is basically over but it lingers and has had accumulated effects. Emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. The past two years have been devastating for some families.
With or without the pandemic everyone is experiencing some kind of pain on some level.
It might be a broken arm or a broken relationship
It might be a chronic sickness or a death in the family
It might be a personal failure that has consequently thrown your family into turmoil.
It might be a miscarriage or a stubborn mental illness that will not go away.
Suffering is frustrating. Sometimes we suffer because of our own actions, sometimes we suffer because of the actions of others and sometimes we suffer and we don’t understand why the suffering has been inflicted upon us.
So why does suffering even exist? To know the true answer we have to go back to the beginning in the garden of Eden where Adam and Eve chose to disobey God.
Genesis 2:15-17
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Genesis 3:6
“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”
This sinful act of rebellion had cosmic consequences. Adam and Eve would no longer live forever but would now die. Sickness and disease would now enter into our bodies. It broke their relationship with God, with each other, with themselves and with the creation. The creation was also thrown into chaos with thorns and thistles, ...
Brian Fletcher
Romans 5:1-5
Introduction:
Great to see everyone on Easter Sunday. Pandemic is basically over but it lingers and has had accumulated effects. Emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. The past two years have been devastating for some families.
With or without the pandemic everyone is experiencing some kind of pain on some level.
It might be a broken arm or a broken relationship
It might be a chronic sickness or a death in the family
It might be a personal failure that has consequently thrown your family into turmoil.
It might be a miscarriage or a stubborn mental illness that will not go away.
Suffering is frustrating. Sometimes we suffer because of our own actions, sometimes we suffer because of the actions of others and sometimes we suffer and we don’t understand why the suffering has been inflicted upon us.
So why does suffering even exist? To know the true answer we have to go back to the beginning in the garden of Eden where Adam and Eve chose to disobey God.
Genesis 2:15-17
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Genesis 3:6
“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”
This sinful act of rebellion had cosmic consequences. Adam and Eve would no longer live forever but would now die. Sickness and disease would now enter into our bodies. It broke their relationship with God, with each other, with themselves and with the creation. The creation was also thrown into chaos with thorns and thistles, ...
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