God let him suffer. Why?
Psalm 6: God’s love and our pain: An oxymoron? Did you ever end up in a major hospital emergency room? While you waited for the doctor, were you or someone in another cubicle groaning or yelling in unbearable pain? This was me after a car accident. I’d suffered a whiplash, and I had to lie still until they checked my neck and spine. The pain in my neck was all-consuming, and every minute dragged into ten. Everyone knows the throb of pain. “Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. ” Isaiah 40:3. When pain is chronic, it wears us down. It may be physical, emotional, or spiritual, and we long for release. Hence, some people believe euthanasia is the answer. But what if our spirits survive death, and if so, where will we spend eternity? David, the weeping prophet, left a legacy of poems in which he poured out his physical, mental, emotio...