Well, D.A. Carson is a very very smart man. He gave a very very good talk on suffering and backed it up with Biblical everything. Very impressive. But more valuable was that he said things that I needed to hear this week. I like going to events where the townies come out. It's good seeing non-good looking people over the age of 24.Here's what I got from it:
- "War makes death real to us" - C.S. Lewis. I like this quote because there are a lot of hippie-type people in Columbia (God love them), and the rebel in me wants to bring up points about how war is sometimes a good idea. I don't want to expound on this. My brother has a funny bumper sticker that says something like "War never solved anything except slavery, genocide, nazism, and fascism"
- sometimes we just don't know why we're suffering (take a look at Job - he never really knew)
- sometimes you can actually see the gravity of your sin in relation to other people's. Even to the point that there exists innocent suffering. This blows my mind, I sway towards the end of the spectrum of assuming that everyone deserves suffering all the time.
