Question and Answer

                                  Why does God make us suffer?

                                   When the disciples asked Jesus whose sin resulted in a particular man being born blind, Jesus replied, "Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him" (John 9:2-3). 
                                    God doesn't send it, but he uses our suffering to draw us to him.
                                    Suffering comes from living in a world made imperfect by sin.  Jesus points out that God doesn't want our needless suffering and will help us through it. 
                                    "Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asks for a fish?  If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him"  (Matthew 7:9-11)?  And he leaves in this wake a trail of discarded crutches, bandages, and bonds to prove it.