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  WHY IS MY PAIN UNENDING?
  by Thomas Brooks
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Summary: When faced with pain and affliction, it's our wisdom and duty
to trust in God's revealed reasons and sit silent, rather than
questioning His doings.

Topics: "Suffering", "Trust in God's Sovereignty"
Scripture References: Deuteronomy 29:29, Job 38:2-3, Psalm 119:71, Isaiah 55:8-9, Jeremiah 15:18, Romans 8:28, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Hebrews 12:11, James 1:2-4, 1 Peter 1:6-7

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DESCRIPTION
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Thomas Brooks addresses the question of unending pain and suffering,
emphasizing that while God has reasons for His actions, He is not
obligated to reveal them to us. He warns against questioning God's
decisions, asserting that God, as the ultimate authority, has the right
to afflict without explanation. Brooks encourages believers to accept
their afflictions with silence and trust, recognizing that God's
purposes are ultimately for their benefit, including the purification of
their lives and souls. He reminds Christians that the hidden reasons for
suffering belong to God alone, urging them to focus on the revealed
truths in Scripture.

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CONTENT
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"Why is my pain unending and my wound

grievous and incurable?" Jeremiah 15:18

Though God has always reason for what He does--yet

He is not bound to show us the reasons of His doings.

It is an evil and a dangerous thing to cavil at, or to

question God's proceedings--who may do with His own

what He pleases. He is unaccountable and uncontrollable;

and therefore none has a right to question Him.

As no man may question God's right to afflict him, nor

His righteousness in afflicting him; so no man may

question the reasons why He afflicts him. As no man

can compel God to give a reason for His doings; so no

man may dare to ask Him the particular reasons of His

doings.

Kings are not bound to give their subjects a reason of

their doings; and shall we bind God to give us a reason

of His doings, who is the King of kings and Lord of Lords,

and whose will is the true and only rule of justice?

The general grounds and reasons which God has laid

down in His word why He afflicts His people, as--that

is for their profit; for the purging away of their sins; for

the purifying of their lives; and for the saving of their

souls--should work them to be silent and satisfied under

all their afflictions; though God should never satisfy their

curiosity in giving them an account of some more hidden

causes which may lie secret in the abysses of His eternal

knowledge and infallible will.

Ah, Christian! it is your wisdom and duty to sit silent

and mute under the afflicting hand of God upon the

account of revealed reasons, without making any

curious inquiry into those more secret reasons which

are locked up in the golden cabinet of God's own

bosom! "The secret things belong to the Lord our

God." Deuteronomy 29:29

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/thomas-brooks/why-is-my-pain-unending/
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