While no human answer to the problem of evil is entirely satisfying, this doesn’t mean that there are no answers. We may not understand it all, but we cling to what we do know. And what we do know—what Christians throughout history have clung to—is that the God of the universe does not abandon us in our suffering. We may not know why suffering happens; we may not know how to free ourselves from it; but we do know that Jesus entered our brokenness and took it on Himself. We do know that “He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
