where do you go with your pain?

have you found that you can count on GOD’s power when you’re in pain? i deal an awful lot with people who are in pain, deep hurting pain. here’s a list of many different types of pain. maybe you are on this list.

• some of you possibly come from lousy family or marriage situations. the relational dynamics are terrible and there are some hate-filled people in the home and you don’t even want to be there. that’s pain.
• some of the possible pain has to do with your own bodily pain. you have some affliction that you live with. and it looks like tomorrow morning when you wake up you’re going to have the same affliction and you’re tired of it. that’s pain.
• some of you possibly are in less than ideal work situation. you don’t like your job. yet you aren’t doing anything about it. you hit work on monday, to unrealistic quotas and impossible deadlines and it’s grinding you down. that’s pain.
• some of you possibly are going through the trauma of a separation or divorce. that’s pain.
• some of you have possibly recently lost loved ones.
• some of you possibly are just starting to face the reality of an emotional condition that you’re discovering about yourself.
• some of you have friendships that are fractured.
• some of you have constant financial pressures. you’re on the verge of bankruptcy.
• some of you that are parents are possibly broken inside because you’re watching your kids making decisions and their lives are self destructing and it’s unbearable to watch. that’s pain.
• some of you are possibly sick of being single. you’re not dating anyone and marriage seems a long way off or even an unrealistic dream. that’s pain.
  

did i hit you? if i didn’t your number’s coming up! pain is right around the corner. there’s no shortage of difficulty facing us. you’re not immune from pain and neither am i.

if you’re not a CHRISTian, you’re here on the front porch just checking this GOD-thing out, some of my CHRISTian friends that have gone through this kind of pain that i’m talking about will tell you that they have walked through the deepest and darkest valleys of their life but they would also tell you with conviction that if it wasn’t for GOD’s power and strength, they would never have made it out the other side – at least not in one piece.

where do you go with your pain? GOD promises us power in the midst of pain. psalm 41.3 (nlt), the LORD nurses them when they’re sick and eases their pain.

for CHRISTians, GOD’s power doesn’t just pacify our pain. when we access GOD’s power, it so invades our life that it satisfies our soul. do you want to tap into that kind of power? it’s available.

just a thought from the front porch…