Why does God allow suffering?
Obedience Lesson
In the military, the training requires tough exercises and grueling tasks. These demanding trials and punishing duties are not just meant to prepare the body for the battlefield. One general explained that they are supposed to drive the soldier to a point of breaking down mentally. The military will use these taxing and often monotonous rigors to ‘deconstruct the soldier before they reconstruct him. When the soldier is completely broken down and built back up, only then can the military be sure that the soldier will follow orders without question.
Hebrews 5:8-10 Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Christ learnt obedience through suffering. To learn obedience the Spirit of God allows us to go through deconstruction in the wilderness of suffering that we may stand ready to follow orders when we get to the battlefield – many souls depend on our obedience.