The Shack: Where Is God When Children Suffer? (Job 38:1-4)
Mack's daughter is murdered, and his faith collapses. He receives a note, apparently from God, inviting him to the shack where his daughter was killed. There he encounters the Trinity—not as he expected, but as who he needed. Papa, a Black woman, asks: Do you think I was not there when Missy was taken? Do you think I did not feel every blow? Job demands answers from God; God responds with presence. The Shack does not explain evil—it refuses theodicy's intellectual games. Instead, it offers encounter. Mack's healing comes not from understanding but from experiencing that God was present in the moment of greatest horror, suffering with his child.
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