Pain – The Megaphone of God

 

As C.S. Lewis puts it this way: “God whispers in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain. It’s His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

 

I hesitated to believe this quotation of C.S. Lewis at first. How can a God, who claims that He loves his people, allow suffering and inexcusable pain in this world? How could it be that an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God is in silent mode whenever his people are groping for help? Where is God when it hurts? The question that always stands as a dagger in the heart of all believers, and to be honest, even me, I don’t really have enough knowledge and experience to answer back to all of these questions.  I just keep on believing to that nudge inside of me, that keep on saying. “Someday God will reveal himself and He will fix everything.

Whether you are religious or merely with no concerns at all. With certainty and no exception; everybody suffers pain in different degree.

 

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not?

-C.S. Lewis

 

Something is wrong! No matter how we rationalize everything in favor of our God. The question about pain and suffering has never been resolved because it tackles another subject of argument, whether God really exists or not?

 

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary, for those who do not, none will suffice.

-Joseph Dunninger Mentalist

In which by this reason; I got a little insight of what Lewis is really trying to say, when he said that pain, is the megaphone of God.

In my Christian journey, there’s always a part of me that tells me to let go of everything that I believe, but there’s that big hope that when the right time comes, when God breaks his silence and reveal his self.  The God whom at first promised, that he will restore everything to its perfect and original state; In that day, until that day; that all the questions about pain and suffering will be sealed off; and the question: Where is God when it hurts? Will never be heard again; I will keep on believing that God will do what he promised yesterday.