I don't think God is the source of our sorrows and pain, but I am sure that He uses the suffering that comes to us in this fallen world to sculpt us into a closer likeness to His Son for our blessing (Romans 8:28).
When we find peace in our circumstances, we are less likely to put forth the effort to seek the Lord. Sorrows, fears, and suffering drive us to the foot of the Cross where we find the peace that defies human understanding (Philippians 4:7).
God does not willingly bring suffering to us (Lamentations 3:33). We can always trust His good intentions toward us; we can always trust His love. The enemy will try to twist the fact of God's sovereign power over Earth's sorrows in an attempt to convince us that God willingly hurts us in order to help us. The secret the enemy doesn't want us to know is that the Almighty God uses even what the enemy means for evil to our good, for His glory (Genesis 50:20). Evil isn't God's fault. He gave his created beings freedom, and we used it for evil. God sent His Son to make us a way to Heaven despite the filth of our own sin. There is no greater love than this.
We consistently underestimate the extent of our own sinfulness and the measures God takes for and through us in order to secure us for Heaven.
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