"Everybody Hurts" | Glorious Ruin, Part 01 | Tullian Tchividjian

Yesterday Tullian began a new series on the Biblical book of Job entitled “Glorious Ruin.”

In this first message, he talks about suffering.

When most of us think about suffering we think of death, disease, divorce, depression—you know, the "big" stuff, crises. But suffering is much bigger and broader than that.

Everyday things like frustration, disappointment, anxiety, fear, insecurity, loneliness, sadness, a nagging sense of not-enoughness, the feeling of being misunderstood, rejected—it’s all suffering.

We all suffer. Pain is unavoidable.

And while we may search high and low for answers as to why we’re suffering, we don’t need answers as much as we need God’s presence in our pain.

It’s not relief that we ultimately need, it’s God. It’s not answers that we ultimately need, it’s God. In other words, what we need most is the presence of God, not the absence of suffering.

And while God never promised that he would rescue us from pain and trouble in this life, he did promise to be with us and to be for us IN our pain and troubles. Our suffering may not be going anywhere, but either is God!