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Thank God for Pain

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As we respond to the trials we endure, we develop the parts of our character that can only grow when we suffer.

We take painkillers in whatever amount needed to dull or remove any pain we suffer. Is there anything good about pain? Should we thank God for pain? Pain is the message that some part of our body sends to our mind to tell us something is wrong. We learn to treat that ailing part with care and attention (I Corinthians 12:26). We learn great lessons when we suffer. Patience, determination, consideration and developing a feeling toward others who also suffer are some of the benefits.

James wrote that we ought to consider it all joy when we fall into various trials (James 1:2). He knew we should thank God for the trials because through them we can see our weaknesses and faults and our need for His part in our lives. We can also understand what needs correction. As we respond to the trials we endure, we develop the parts of our character that can only grow when we suffer.

Endurance only grows when we have something to endure. Patience grows in the arena of trials that demand patience. When the good fruits have grown and developed, then we will know why to thank God for our trials and pain.

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Comments

  • pete-g
    pete-g

    I got struck by a car as a pedestrian and thrown 10-12 metres according to the ambulance report, and have been dealing with severe pain 24 hours a day now for almost 20 years. I’m on string prescribed pain medication, have had multiple surgeries, have an implanted spinal cord stimulator, and when I hear people saying thank you for pain I get annoyed. Can you imagine a 6 inch pointed blade stuck in your hip socket 24/7? And then it twisting and churning, sending syringe like pain up your leg and back? Only people who aren’t going through it talk about how great it is to learn from God. No! The first thing Jesus did in Mark was to heal people suffering severe pain. God isn’t TEACHING YOU SOMETHING. Is that the way a parent teaches their children? By watching them suffer in pain? Please stop speaking for us who have preferred to put an end to out pain because God doesn’t. Can you imagine what it’s like to not be able to escape the body you’re in that causing you stabbing pain? All I know is that one day at a time is more than enough to deal with. Why God doesn’t step in and show compassion or mercy He only knows. It’s not wrong to ask why he doesn’t. It’s not questioning if he’s good

  • J G
    John Gordon

    One comment said "...We learn great lessons when we suffer. Patience, determination, consideration and developing a feeling toward others who also suffer are some of the benefits..."

    And if those weren't enough lessons/benefits for suffering, we may consider the following words from the Apostle Paul, Silvanus, and Timotheus, to those of God's Church of the Thessalonians:

    2 Thess 1:2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
    :3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
    :4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
    :5 [Which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

    Suffer and be counted worthy!

    :11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of [his] goodness, and the work of faith with power:

    All done according to grace :12

  • Robert and Val
    Robert Berendt

    Amen to your conclusion Darla -- but we are not there yet and it is true that we all have our limits in what we can endure. God knows each detail of our lives and He has stated that He will make a way of escape (I Cor.10:13) that we may bear it. We all pray "Thy kingdom come and Thy will be done" as we bravely face our pain and trials as Jesus did for us.

  • Seasons57
    Ellen M. Nichols

    Amen! Feeling pain let's me know that I'm still alive.

  • Darla Moody
    Darla Moody

    Yes, there is a place for pain, but I've seen too much pain and suffering in my lifetime.

    I look forward to the day when "...the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; ...
    Isa. 25:8 :)

  • J G
    John Gordon

    And with every passing day, we are one more day closer to that Great Day:

    Revelation 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.
    :4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

    In the meantime, we're learning to hate evil, and all of the pain and suffering associated with it:

    Psalm 97:10 "Ye that love the LORD, hate evil:..."
    Proverbs 8:13 "The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate."
    In God's PLan of Salvation there seems to be a purpose for everything, even the following:

    "The LORD hath made all [things] for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4

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