Silence. It’s the scariest sound in the world.

When you scream for God to help . . . but your agony echoes in the void.

I wrote my new book—Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil?—from a place of personal distress, to address what I think is the most difficult objection to Christianity. I agonized over the silence of God in Elie Wiesel’s book Night and pored over the Scriptures to discern God’s response.

From Job to Jesus I encountered cries for help. And I believe in these very Scriptures we find something even better than answers to our objections. We find the very presence of God, no matter how bleak our circumstances. We find that God speaks through the very cries of his people and offers us the gift of his Son—a suffering servant who makes all things new.

If you’re not currently crying out to God for help, I imagine you know someone who is. I wrote this short book—part of TGC’s Hard Questions series with Crossway—not only for those who suffer but also for those who love them. We are far from alone in this search for God amid our pain. From the ancient Scriptures, through the great works of literature, to the moral revolutions of the 20th century, this question—Where is God in a world with so much evil?—marks our very identity as the only creatures made in the image of God.

To us God may sometimes sound silent. But in his Word we find the words of eternal life.