Sin, Suffering, and the Cross

As Reformed believers, we’re good at holding on to the fact that sin is sin. Just because a person is reacting sinfully to a bad situation doesn’t mean their sin isn’t sin, nor does it excuse them.

But it still remains a fact - and one we seem to want to ignore often - that people often speak from a place of pain. Again, that doesn’t justify any sin on their part. But the pain is still there for them. The truth is we often run to pointing out their sin and hang exclusively on that because we find their pain to be an inconvenience we don’t want to deal with.

A reactionary response to a therapeutic culture is wrong when it denies the reality of suffering, suffering which our Lord Himself affirmed in His own suffering on the cross.