The God Who Suffers With You

Have you ever tried to explain a deep pain to someone who just… couldn’t get it? You try to find the words for the ache, the exhaustion, the confusion, but the words fall short. There’s a unique loneliness in feeling misunderstood in your suffering. We can even start to believe that God is like that distant, clinical, understanding the facts of our pain but unable to truly enter into the feeling of it. But what if that assumption is completely wrong?