Your pain is not in vain
I am in physical pain. Pity doesn't work. Neither does self-pity. There are things I can do in the hope that I will one day be okay. The hydrotherapist agreed to aqua-aerobics. I continue going.
What comfort is there for people in physical pain? When in pain, it takes more effort to smile, be friendly and patient. Your focus is not as readily available as it was before the pain began.
I am asking what one can do to overcome physical pain? What are God-given painkillers? Medicinal painkillers I choose not to take. I believe they cause greater internal damage than is worth. They do not solve the problem. They numb the pain. They do not change the situation. They do not amend the situation. They don't help.
I remember the cold table I lay on in hospital. I laughed from the pain. I thought it ridiculous. I knew that if I couldn't handle it, I would pass out. The fact that I was conscious meant that this pain was bearable.
After two or three hours after my pelvis had been fractured, they gave me something for the pain. It didn't work. Painkillers can't reach that deep inside your body. I simply had to live in it.
Whilst in hospital I saved some of my thoughts on my cell phone. One of them was, "What is beyond the pain within the sphere of life, I asked. Perhaps a song." I sent this one along with others to a friend. He found this one the least profound.
Still, I do not know how to distract myself from physical pain other than to sing. It is simple, I know, but it is the only thing that places my mind, soul and body onto another plane. Pain cannot be healed. It can only be overcome.
"Mind over matter" is the popular saying. I thank God for the mind of Christ, who had faith that all the people on planet earth would be saved if he would drink of the cup of suffering. What was His assurance that people would turn to God if he sacrificed His life? What if He had come to earth in vain? What if He did all these miracles and no one believed that He was the Son of God?
There were those that believed Him, and they were true to Him; only at the end they turned on Him also. Everyone turned against Him. No one REALLY believed, not to the point of death, only JESUS.
But afterwards, He returned, and they saw Him, and they finally believed, really believed that He was and is the Son of the Living God. And then they too were ready to give their lives as living sacrifices, knowing what awaited them.
Christ's death was not in vain. I believe He is in heaven, at the right hand of God. And I believe He has saved the human race from damnation. He came to save the world, not to judge it. i am happy for Him. He could have been just any man, but He was not.
It is an unwritten law of life that sin needs to be paid for. There are consequences to every action. We know this, but we don't want to believe it. We don't want to be responsible for our actions. That is human nature. Our sin caused us to be separated from God with whom we shared perfect union in the beginning of time.
If Jesus had not come, we would still be living under the law. We would still be judged before God, but directly, without an intercessor. Without an attorney standing in to defend us. We'd have to defend ourselves alone. Entirely alone.
Jesus gave his life. He died. He didn't die a natural death. No one believed He was the Son of God. No one believed He was God Incarnate, so they crucified Him. Had Jesus died a natural death, would He still have been the Savior of the world? Did it have to be so painful? Did it have to be a conscious decision to die?
I don't claim to know all the answers. I am still trying to wrap my mind around His mind, HIs great and expansive mind. He knew that He was sent by His Father to preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God. He did so. He also performed miracles in the name of the Father. He gained many followers. He was a popular guy, so to speak, because of the great truths He was teaching. But when it came to crunch time, He was sold for 30 silver coins.
He had to endure a lot of different kinds of pains, and you wonder, what for? What was the point of all that? The point really is that no matter how much He suffered, He was telling the truth, and nothing and no one could make Him lie. If you know your identity, there is no doubt in your mind who you are. The truth always comes out in the end. It always wins.
So, no, He didn't need to die a gruesome death. He was and is the Son of God. The Father needed a living sacrifice, an unblemished lamb, to take away the sins of the people. Someone had to pay. Someone always has to pay. Did you think your sins didn't cost anything? They cost Jesus His life.
One for all, and all for one. It's not just a Robin Hood song, I thought a few years back, when I first came to read that scripture and understood its meaning for the first time.
It is hard to say what the point of the experience of pain is. In Jesus' case, it allowed every single human being on planet earth to be reconciled to God because He became the atonement for the sins of the world so that we would one day not stand before God alone and try to defend ourselves, but stand as sinners with Jesus in between, who gives us access to the Kingdom. By grace. Not by works. Jesus is the Way.
Your pain has a purpose, even if you are not aware of it now. It serves to accomplish God's will for His people whom He loves.
What comfort is there for people in physical pain? When in pain, it takes more effort to smile, be friendly and patient. Your focus is not as readily available as it was before the pain began.
I am asking what one can do to overcome physical pain? What are God-given painkillers? Medicinal painkillers I choose not to take. I believe they cause greater internal damage than is worth. They do not solve the problem. They numb the pain. They do not change the situation. They do not amend the situation. They don't help.
I remember the cold table I lay on in hospital. I laughed from the pain. I thought it ridiculous. I knew that if I couldn't handle it, I would pass out. The fact that I was conscious meant that this pain was bearable.
After two or three hours after my pelvis had been fractured, they gave me something for the pain. It didn't work. Painkillers can't reach that deep inside your body. I simply had to live in it.
Whilst in hospital I saved some of my thoughts on my cell phone. One of them was, "What is beyond the pain within the sphere of life, I asked. Perhaps a song." I sent this one along with others to a friend. He found this one the least profound.
Still, I do not know how to distract myself from physical pain other than to sing. It is simple, I know, but it is the only thing that places my mind, soul and body onto another plane. Pain cannot be healed. It can only be overcome.
"Mind over matter" is the popular saying. I thank God for the mind of Christ, who had faith that all the people on planet earth would be saved if he would drink of the cup of suffering. What was His assurance that people would turn to God if he sacrificed His life? What if He had come to earth in vain? What if He did all these miracles and no one believed that He was the Son of God?
There were those that believed Him, and they were true to Him; only at the end they turned on Him also. Everyone turned against Him. No one REALLY believed, not to the point of death, only JESUS.
But afterwards, He returned, and they saw Him, and they finally believed, really believed that He was and is the Son of the Living God. And then they too were ready to give their lives as living sacrifices, knowing what awaited them.
Christ's death was not in vain. I believe He is in heaven, at the right hand of God. And I believe He has saved the human race from damnation. He came to save the world, not to judge it. i am happy for Him. He could have been just any man, but He was not.
It is an unwritten law of life that sin needs to be paid for. There are consequences to every action. We know this, but we don't want to believe it. We don't want to be responsible for our actions. That is human nature. Our sin caused us to be separated from God with whom we shared perfect union in the beginning of time.
If Jesus had not come, we would still be living under the law. We would still be judged before God, but directly, without an intercessor. Without an attorney standing in to defend us. We'd have to defend ourselves alone. Entirely alone.
Jesus gave his life. He died. He didn't die a natural death. No one believed He was the Son of God. No one believed He was God Incarnate, so they crucified Him. Had Jesus died a natural death, would He still have been the Savior of the world? Did it have to be so painful? Did it have to be a conscious decision to die?
I don't claim to know all the answers. I am still trying to wrap my mind around His mind, HIs great and expansive mind. He knew that He was sent by His Father to preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God. He did so. He also performed miracles in the name of the Father. He gained many followers. He was a popular guy, so to speak, because of the great truths He was teaching. But when it came to crunch time, He was sold for 30 silver coins.
He had to endure a lot of different kinds of pains, and you wonder, what for? What was the point of all that? The point really is that no matter how much He suffered, He was telling the truth, and nothing and no one could make Him lie. If you know your identity, there is no doubt in your mind who you are. The truth always comes out in the end. It always wins.
So, no, He didn't need to die a gruesome death. He was and is the Son of God. The Father needed a living sacrifice, an unblemished lamb, to take away the sins of the people. Someone had to pay. Someone always has to pay. Did you think your sins didn't cost anything? They cost Jesus His life.
One for all, and all for one. It's not just a Robin Hood song, I thought a few years back, when I first came to read that scripture and understood its meaning for the first time.
It is hard to say what the point of the experience of pain is. In Jesus' case, it allowed every single human being on planet earth to be reconciled to God because He became the atonement for the sins of the world so that we would one day not stand before God alone and try to defend ourselves, but stand as sinners with Jesus in between, who gives us access to the Kingdom. By grace. Not by works. Jesus is the Way.
Your pain has a purpose, even if you are not aware of it now. It serves to accomplish God's will for His people whom He loves.
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They were walking along a path to the next town, and along came this man, talking to them, apparently not knowing about the recent events that had taken place. The events of Jesus being crucified.
After some persuasion they invited him to come and eat with them, and as he broke the bread like he always used to do - they recognized Him.
Or rather they recognized themselves in him.
Think about it. When you see Jesus, you can recognize yourself in him.
When the preacher mentioned it in this way, I was a little confused and could not put his statement together in my mind, but then suddenly it snapped in place.
When Jesus died, I died with Him. He took me on that cross with Him, and I died too!
Not only that, when he was resurrected, I was resurrected with Him, in perfect glory and radiance.
So when you see Jesus, you see yourself in him. This is who you really are!
This is the Mirror image of 2Cor 3:18. We are now in Him. The more we look into the mirror the more we are transformed into his glory.
The more we see who we now are by the spirit, the more we are transformed.
The more we see that we had died to every disease and sickness and was raised up in newness of life, the more it starts to manifest in the present.
And the more we see Him taking all pain and sin upon Him, dieing with it or rather dieing with OUR pain, sin, and sickness and being resurrected perfectly without it, and understanding that that is how and who we now are, the less pain and sickness has a hold on our lives.
I don't claim to have taken a full hold of this understanding, but I know that Jesus' death has accomplished so much more than we are currently understanding or taking a hold of.
So by writing this, I really hope that your pain is one step closer to being fully healed by what Jesus has done :-)
Bless you Nicole