The Oppression Outcry

Why Solomon Saw Meaningless Suffering Until Jesus Christ Offered Redemption

Solomon looked at oppression and said the dead are better off than the living. He saw suffering and found it meaningless.

But he never saw the cross. Where Jesus Christ took meaningless suffering and made it redemptive. Where injustice met divine justice. Where oppression got answered with resurrection.

Your suffering isn't meaningless when Jesus entered into it. He didn't eliminate suffering. He redeemed it. He joined you in it. He transformed it into testimony. What Solomon saw as dead-end pain, Jesus transformed into purposeful process. Suffering isn't the goal. But when it comes, it's not meaningless. Not when the God who suffered with you uses it to heal others through you.

What suffering feels meaningless that Jesus Christ is waiting to redeem into someone else's rescue story?