Why, God?

We know that when sin entered the world, death also entered. We are in a fallen world of death and suffering. But when it comes to our personal experience of that, we have questions like the psalmist did in Psalm 73. When I was about nine years old, I had a Sunday School teacher who had us memorize Isaiah 55:8-9. And whatever I've been through in life, that Scripture has never left me: "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my thoughts higher than your thoughts and my ways than your ways." We can confidently rest in the wisdom and sovereign purpose of God no matter how painful and inexplicable what we experience is on earth.