Our Heartfelt Cries Are Heard
Our Heartfelt Cries Are Heard
by K. Harrington
That same question "Where is God?" is one I have asked in the midst of my own personal suffering. It is one that as a pastor I have heard from families, as they have watched a loved one suffer the agony of cancer. It is a universal question that everyone at some point in their lives asks.

Faced with suffering that defies explanation or reason we cry " Where is God?" It is a cry of the tortured heart.

Good Friday will never answer the 'why' of suffering. But it does tell us one thing God is not removed from our suffering. He dose not watch as an impartial bystander in our lives. He feels our pain because he suffered also.

On the cross Jesus/ God took on board every tragedy, every injustice, every hideous rape, murder, abuse and torture. The world has ever seen or felt. The pain and shame and guilt of it all becomes his.

Today Jesus/ God continues to suffer, just as a parent suffers as they watch their children go astray, and wreck their lives. So, also Jesus/God suffers as he watches us in our wretchedness. He suffers as we choose ways that bring us pain. He suffers the agony of rejection and misunderstanding as we ignore and insult him despite his love for us.

To claim God does not understand the cry of our hearts is the ultimate insult to him. No lesser god, no other god has suffered as he did suffer on Calvary.