Something Everyone Deals With

How often have we heard the question “ How could a LOVING God let this happen?” when something goes wrong? I recently read Rob Bell’s newest book “Drop Like the Stars.” It’s a short read and extremely visual; it’s mainly about suffering. Let us remember Christ agonized just like us when he was on Earth. Here are some things Bell said about suffering:

“The first Christians insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, this wasn’t just another execution by the Roman Empire. They believed this was divine…A god who is not somewhere else-

remote

detached,

distant-

but among us,

Feeling what we feel,

Aching how we ache,

SUFFERING LIKE US.

God came into the world and screamed alongside us…Is the cross God’s way of saying, “ I know how you feel?”’

That’s all I have for the day. I'm not calling this theology, just something to think about.