Living With Chronic Pain – Spiritual Healing – Origin of Suffering
Have you ever wondered where suffering comes from? In most likelihood, you’ve probably never really given this question any consideration, except if you, personally, have undergone some form of painful adversity.
Whether you consider suffering as an instrument for redemption or in regards to instruction, its origin remains a mystery for many. Regardless of your worldview, when suffering inhabits our core being and shatters our ability to cope; commonly, we react mentally and emotionally with anger toward others, and worse, the injustice of pain causes our pride to boldly question God about His intentions on our behalf.
The unfairness of pain insists on taking the front position on the podium for everyone to see. Nevertheless, though it rears its ugly head, threatening to spread among each of us, the question still exists. And many of us, ranging from religious to political to philosophical, remain perplexed about this subject. Where does suffering really come from?
It really depends upon your worldview. Peter Gomes, a preacher to Harvard University, writes, “The context of life is not living, but death, and it is out of death that life comes. Death is the rule to which life is the exception.” And from my worldview, death dominates our surrounding environment when born into this world. Suffering makes its home here, very comfortably in fact. God is probably not causing your suffering. This is not to say that you might not experience difficult and arduous trials, but to accuse God for the suffering of this world excludes faith, as well as the qualities of instruction and redemption. Suffering is not an exception to the human condition. It is the human condition. Plainly, I believe that suffering comes from the sin of this fallen world.
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