{"id":27406,"date":"2020-11-16T15:40:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=27406"},"modified":"2020-11-26T09:32:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T15:32:36","slug":"disability-two-common-temptations-part-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=27406","title":{"rendered":"Disability: Two Common Temptations, Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/products\/when-disability-hits-home\"><\/a>In our attempt to understand God\u2019s ways in the midst of our suffering there are two common temptations which often fight to claim the higher ground in our mind.<\/p>\n<p> First Temptation: The Temptation to Blame Someone <\/p>\n<p>Automatically connecting <em>personal<\/em> suffering to <em>personal<\/em> sin is a typical human response. \u201cSince God is good,\u201d we reason, \u201che cannot be behind this accident, tragedy, or evil. Therefore, it must be the fault of the one who suffers or someone connected to him or her.\u201d Thankfully, the Holy Spirit wrote the Old Testament book of Job at least in part to correct that response.<\/p>\n<p>The book of Job is essential to our understanding of suffering because it destroys the credibility of the notion that all suffering is the result of the sin of the sufferer. Theologian D. A. Carson says it well when he explains Job\u2019s unique contribution to our theology:<\/p>\n<p>the book\u2019s special contribution to the canon [of Scripture], and to the topic of evil and suffering, is its treatment of what most of us would call irrational evil, incoherent suffering. Such evil and suffering do not easily fit into glib \u201csolutions.\u201d We may remember lessons learned elsewhere in the Bible, but when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our attempt to understand God\u2019s ways in the midst of our suffering there are two common temptations which often fight to claim the higher ground in our mind. First Temptation: The Temptation to Blame Someone Automatically connecting personal suffering to personal sin is a typical human response. \u201cSince God is good,\u201d we reason, \u201che [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":27413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[801],"tags":[1305,1739,911,3264,953,3145,484,233,3250],"class_list":["post-27406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shepherd-press-jay-younts","tag-disability","tag-gods-sovereignty","tag-godward-orientation","tag-job","tag-joni-eareckson-tada","tag-paul-tautges","tag-providence","tag-suffering","tag-when-disability-hits-home","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/when-disability-hits-home-1000-31-1.jpg?fit=195%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27414,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27406\/revisions\/27414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}