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10 Reasons Why God Allows Suffering
Jared Wilson, in Gospel Deeps, writes that “while we may not be satisfied with what God hasrevealed about his purposes in suffering, we cannot justifiably say he has not revealed anything about his purposes in suffering. We may nothave the answer we are laboring for, but we do have a wealth of answers that lie in the same field.”
Here’s an outline of ten reasons heidentifies in God’s Word:
1. To remind us that the world is broken and groans for redemption [Rom. 8:20-23].
2. To do justicein response to Adam’s (and our) sin.
3. To remind us of the severity of the impact of Adam’s (and our) sin.
4. To keep usdependent on God [Heb. 12:6-7].
5. So that we will long more for heaven and less for the world.
6. To make us more like Christ, thesuffering servant [Rom. 8:29; 2 Cor. 1:5, 4:11].
7. To awaken the lost to their need for God [Ps. 119:67, 71].
8. To make the blissof heaven more sweet [Rom. 8:18; 1 Pet. 4:13; Ps. 126:5; Isa. 61:3].
9. So that Christ will get the glory in being our strength[John 9:3; 2 Cor. 4:7].
10. And so that, thereby, others see that he is our treasure, and not ourselves [2 Cor. 4:8-9].
See Jared C.Wilson, Gospel Deeps: Reveling in the Excellencies of Jesus (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), pp. 114-120 for an elaboration of each point.