God’s answer to suffering is not an explanation. But a person. Jesus Christ. Christ who took up flesh. Christ who died. Christ who is risen. Christ who will come again. To set all things right.

"But remember this: if God is in it with you, sharing your suffering, it is also true that you are in it with God, sharing His redemptive activity and His victory. It is by the travail of the soul of Christ, by the age-long sufferings of God, that the world is moving on to its ultimate redemption. 'With His stripes we are healed.' Hence what suffering does, when it comes one day to you, is to give you a chance to co-operate with God." (James Stewart, 1941, Edinburgh, Scotland)