He Suffered Too

Recently it seems all around me are hurting people. My neighbor is losing her home. A friend called me to tell me that she is having a hard time coping. Yesterday a different friend called me crying and last week I spent trying to figure out the answer to questions that seem to have no answer.

I don't understand all suffering. I don't always understand why good people have hard things. Why children suffer so much on and on...

But when I raised my disabled child I found comfort in scripture that tells us clearly God cares for and knows the suffering of those that are at a disadvantage.

"Then I will draw near to you for judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear ME", says the Lord of hosts. Mal 3:5

I realized that God does have a special judgement for the oppressed and a special reward. Suffering hurts, but God sent his son to die: that hurt too. So he knows pain and I believe he cries with us.

I can't explain all pain. But I do believe we have a God that suffered too.