To deal with suffering and disappointments, we need God’s perspective on life.

4) God allows tragedy and disappointment to interrupt our lives so that He can comfort us.

2 Corinthians 1 [3] All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. [4] He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.

Once He has helped us mend, He will bring others across our path that we can identify with and therefore comfort them. This is part of God’s strategy in maturing us. God is in the business of developing comforters. And the best comforter is the one who has been through the same pain or sorrow that we have and emerged from it a better person.

Just like Job, we might ask, “God, Why did You let this happen to me?” This may lead to an attitude which believes that God has his hands tied. To be fair, we must confess that nobody knows how many times God has intervened to stop tragedy and disaster. All we know are the times when He didn’t. God proves that He is in control, not by intervening constantly and preventing all tragedy and disaster, but by ruling and overruling them so that even tragedy ends up accomplishing His ultimate purposes.