Shame is a demoralizing emotion. It’s an indiscriminate sort of internal bully. No person, regardless of their relative confidence or station in life, is exempted from its ridicule. There is no route home where shame is not waiting for you. It can...

His friends tried to gain a confession from Job. Job tried to get an explanation out of God. And neither ever came. Job never confessed to his friends and God never explained Himself to Job. And thus the problem with pain.

Where is God when so much evil, suffering, and injustice reigns in the world?
by Pastor Jimmy Buehler

The question, "How long, O Lord?" has been asked by saints for millennia. It is littered throughout the psalter (6, 13, 35, 79, 80, 89, 90, 94) from the pens of David, Asaph, and Moses. There are the wrestlings of Asaph in Psalms 73 and 77. Then, there is Psalm 88, which begins and ends in darkness—while acknowledging the Lord is the God of our salvation. God's people have repeatedly cried out to him, "Lord, how long will it be like this?"

It is fair to say that all humans struggle with the problem of evil. If God is sovereign, why doesn’t he remove all the evil in this world? Why did he allow it in the first place? Can God truly be good if he has the power to stop evil but doesn’t? The harder you try to answer these questions, the more confused you will become. For thousands of years, humanity has wrestled with these questions.