I would sit and think about how bad it all hurt once again. The reasons are always different but the feeling of pain is all the same.
Some deeper, some surface pain. Some more like a pressure, some more like an ache. Some more like a cut, some more like a break.
"At least it's becoming familiar. I can deal with familiar," a thought I had the other day. I'm beginning to catch on. It's not going away.
There will always be something (in this life) that comes to demand my happy estate. A disappointment. A betray. A death. An unfair trade. Even someone else's pain or loss. And I'm beginning to learn that sometimes, that's okay.
Because pain is not the enemy. Where I got the idea that it is I don't know. The world I guess.
"Here we go again," I would think "what am I supposed to be learning this time?" or "What lesson didn't I learn last time that I have to feel this much pain once again to get through my head?" But it dawned on me that it's all for the same cause. It's all playing for the same team. It's all being used for the same thing.
Every trial is unique. And it does produce different things. But while each trial works on something a little different in my heart, they're all still doing the same thing to it: making it beautiful.
There's a reason for pain in this world. Although pain is the consequence of sin, it has a purpose for good- to mold hearts into the shape they were meant to be in.
But someday, it will be gone. It will be gone because sin will be no more. And by the time sin is no more, our hearts will be right.
I really look forward to the day when I will look Jesus face to face, eye to eye and have no sin in the way and no pain in my heart.
I actually can't even imagine what no pain and no tears at all will be like. But I know it's gonna be good. And I know someday, it's going to happen. I have faith in that.
No pain is something that I'm really looking forward to.
Some deeper, some surface pain. Some more like a pressure, some more like an ache. Some more like a cut, some more like a break.
"At least it's becoming familiar. I can deal with familiar," a thought I had the other day. I'm beginning to catch on. It's not going away.
There will always be something (in this life) that comes to demand my happy estate. A disappointment. A betray. A death. An unfair trade. Even someone else's pain or loss. And I'm beginning to learn that sometimes, that's okay.
Because pain is not the enemy. Where I got the idea that it is I don't know. The world I guess.
James 1:2-4
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
1 Peter 2:19
For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God.
Hebrews 12:11
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
"Here we go again," I would think "what am I supposed to be learning this time?" or "What lesson didn't I learn last time that I have to feel this much pain once again to get through my head?" But it dawned on me that it's all for the same cause. It's all playing for the same team. It's all being used for the same thing.
Every trial is unique. And it does produce different things. But while each trial works on something a little different in my heart, they're all still doing the same thing to it: making it beautiful.
Revelation 21:4
‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more
death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
There's a reason for pain in this world. Although pain is the consequence of sin, it has a purpose for good- to mold hearts into the shape they were meant to be in.
But someday, it will be gone. It will be gone because sin will be no more. And by the time sin is no more, our hearts will be right.
I really look forward to the day when I will look Jesus face to face, eye to eye and have no sin in the way and no pain in my heart.
I actually can't even imagine what no pain and no tears at all will be like. But I know it's gonna be good. And I know someday, it's going to happen. I have faith in that.
No pain is something that I'm really looking forward to.