10.21.2015 Old Testament: Jer 5.18–19

To read the Bible in a year, read Jeremiah 5–6 on October 21, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

Often atheists, skeptics, and other secularists throw in our faces the existence of suffering, arguing that if God exists, He would take away the suffering. However, the Bible says,

“Nevertheless in those days,” says the Lord, “I will not make a complete end of you. And it will be when you say, ‘Why does the Lord our God do all these things to us?’ then you shall answer them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve aliens in a land that is not yours’” (Jeremiah 5.18–19). 

The atheist wants to live without God, but then charges Him with evil for allowing suffering to exist. Suffering exists in this world, because from the beginning man has turned his back on God.

Let us then turn to Him, not that the suffering might go away, but that we might see what we have done to our relationship with Him, and that we might restore it by His grace.