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We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2008. Our children helped us celebrate with an all expense paid all arranged vacation In Hawaii.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
It is a blessing to be associated with the Scottsdale Bible Church. Today it was my pleasure to visit with some of the staff at the Biblical Counseling Center. The center is staffed with licensed Christian professionals and numerous trained Christian lay people reaching out to the church family and community in their times of need. They are a no-fee facility and confidentiality is one of their major priorities.
The mission of the Counseling Center is to glorify God and help others remove barriers that prevent a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. This outreach of God’s love is for any individual who is hurting both in the congregation and in the community.
A new book has just come on the market with the title, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer. The man who wrote the book is a Christian and a brilliant professor at a leading university in the south, who lost his faith because he couldn’t answer the problem of why God allows us to suffer. He asks some good questions in this book but he doesn’t have the answers. I think the Bible does provide the answer—it just isn’t easy to see.
Can the people at the Counseling Center answer your questions about human suffering? I don’t know. This is tough stuff. But I do know that they will share their faith with you, pray with you, and help you find your own answer.
1 comments:
in my humble opinion, there is no answer, certainly not one that solves anything. There (at least at this moment, for me) is only the humbling of the suffering and the fact that if you allow it, it makes you crawl into His lap for comfort. And the moments you find it you are lifted up with the amazement of it. And the next moment when you feel again overwhelmed by greif, suffering of those you love, and great loss, you look again for that comfort, sometimes you find it, sometimes you don't. There are a hundred small moments that you must, for your sanity, acknowledge. Inch, by inch, moment by moment and the all enduring hope of the joy and peace set before us. I know there is a reason, even though I have only hazy glimpses of what it might be. However, those you find that choose to listen, and not give pat answers are part of the comfort, which I believe is from Him. I am grateful for people who offer this gift. -Sandy
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