Faith After Nashville

My wife has an incurable form of stage four lung cancer. Every day for the past six years she takes a pill that keeps the tumors at bay. The pill was supposed to quit working four years ago. With metronomic regularity, her lungs are scanned every three months and by God’s grace, the tumors have not grown. I am regularly asked by genuinely curious non-religious friends, “how can you believe in a God that would allow this to happen to your wife?”

The church we attend is a PCA church, the same denomination as the Nashville school that saw three students and three faculty members senselessly murdered yesterday. I see the same question asked, “how can you believe in a God that would allow this to happen?” Here’s why: