Why does God allow suffering? (pt3)

My latest thoughts:

When we sinned, we abandoned God, we rejected his love and protection and told Him that we, the human race no longer needed Him and could do things for ourselves.  We said we could look after our children without His help.

We were God's children, subject to His love and protection.

We then decided to orphan ourselves.

God allows suffering in this world, because we told Him to.

But...

...God didn't completely do what we wanted.  He sent us an invitation to call Him Father again, and be adopted back into His family.  To live in His love, to have our identity completed within Him, and to have His protection and authority over evil, as we re-surrender our lives to Him.

That invitation, is in Christ.