How to Handle Suffering

Suffering is not a matter of if, but when. When it arrives, we tend to respond in one of three ways: we become bitter, we become broken, or we become better. God's intention is always the third option. Drawing from the book of James and the life of Job, we are called to be prayerful in our pain, patient in the process, and to praise God through the pressure. Prayer connects us to a God who is not standing outside of our trouble looking in but is present within it. Like a farmer who trusts the harvest even when nothing is visible above the soil, we are invited to trust that God is working beneath the surface. Suffering is real, but so is the God who walks through it with us.