Pain

This ride hasn’t been a good one. Neuropathic pains all the time. It’s become part of life. I’ve learnt to live with it despite the discomfort and many challenges that come along.

Sometimes God delivers you from the fire furnace but sometimes He just lets you burn or gets you fire proof because He knows that you are going to learn something out of the pain and it’s going to make you better.

Living with a chronic health condition or emotional pain is not easy or fun, but if one is willing to look hard enough there are some beautiful things to be learned even in the midst raw and constant discomfort.

Pain is not authorized to destroy you. It’s authorized to make you, build you, get you stronger and ready to face battles ahead.

God is more concerned with our development than our comfort. 

Learn to embrace the pain.

Paul asked God to remove the pain, whatever it might have been. Perhaps Paul explained why it would be a good idea to have the pain removed. He could plant more churches. He could write more letters. He could win more converts, raise more money or mentor more disciples. He could prove the power of God even more with the miracles that were so common in Ephesus, for instance (Acts 19:11-12)

Paul asked again. And again. On three separate occasions Paul pulled out all the stops to ask God for a miracle of his own.

“Please, God.”
“Please, God.”
“Please, God.”

The pain didn’t go away. Whatever the problem, it apparently stayed with Paul for quite some time, or even the rest of his life.

Jesus knew pain, of course, weeping at the tomb of Lazarus, and over unrepentant Jerusalem. He knew the physical pain of the cross, and the personal pain of betrayal. He had seen rejection and disappointment as surely as you have.

2 Cor. 12:7-10 

In other words, Paul decided he was fine with the pain. If Christ’s power was upon him in the pain, then he would rather have the strength of Christ than his own weakness.

“When I am weak, then I am strong,” Paul said. And that’s the power of pain.

I’m fine too😊…

Learning my lessons and growing stronger as days go by.