03/16/2026
"When Jesus asks 'why?' from the nightmare of the cross, there is silence, then there is death. God, the Father of the Son, is not interested in answering the question of 'why suffering?', at least not in the way we would like. He doesn't sit up on a debate stage with philosophers and skeptics and offer an irrefutable argument for His own goodness.
But what God does want us to know is that when the time came for Him to come down and walk among us in the world that He created, He did not excuse Himself from the suffering that moves us to look up and cry out, 'why?'. As God is want to do with so many of our questions, he answers obliquely and indirectly with an answer that was as unexpected and unpredictable as it is now. His answer is to give us Jesus the Christ, the Christ who hangs on a cross, the sinless One who shows us that the asking of the question of 'why?' is no sin. And He shows us that living faithfully till death is possible in spite of the unanswered why.
And so we accept Jesus as the answer, as resurrection, and to eternal life where all thought and memory of suffering is driven away by the glory of the One who has called us into His light."
