Why Does A Good God Allow So Much Suffering?

Someone gets a diagnosis no one saw coming. A child is born into a home with nothing. A good, praying family loses everything in a single season. We watch it, or we live it, and the question rises before we can stop it: if God is good, and God is powerful, why does He let this happen?

This is not a question for the classroom. It is asked through tears, at hospital bedsides, at funerals, in the quiet after the news comes. It deserves more than a quick line. It deserves an honest look.

It is worth saying at the start that asking this question is not a sign of weak faith. Many of the most…