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Some say, "If God is good, why is there so much suffering?" Why does God allow suffering? An encouraging answer.
Excerpt: Does war cast doubt upon God’s government and goodness? Are we, because of it, to question either His existence or His character? To answer these questions in the affirmative would be unreasonable and unjustifiable. The world is full of tragedy — and therefore current wars, from that standpoint, are nothing new. To the greatest of them — sin, suffering, and death — we have, in various ways, become so accustomed, that we treat their existence as a matter of course. Are we, because the tragedy which is ever present takes on some new guise and appears in an accentuated form, to make this a reason for challenging God’s existence or His overruling providence? A current great war, appalling in every way as it is (and no words can adequately set forth its horrors), is not the first calamity the world has had to face. If it were, we might reasonably raise questions which it is nothing short of folly to raise now. Ever since sin entered the world — that one unique, outstanding and immeasurable calamity — catastrophes one after another have followed in its train. They are of various kinds — nature “red in tooth and claw,” and “man’s inhumanity to man.” When all this confronts us and are elements in the very system of which we ourselves are part, how can we be so irrational as to attempt to draw a line between things which do not differ essentially, but only in degree, and say that does not shake my faith in God, but this does. Rather, would it not be better to ask, Is there any explanation of this great mystery of suffering?