GOD also speaks through pain.
are you acquainted with this way? we don't change when we see the light, we change when we feel the heat. none of us really like to change and so we fear what it might do to us.
we fear change and we don't change until the pain becomes greater than the fear of change. once the pain is greater than the fear, we change.
now GOD is interested in speaking to you and interested in having a relationship with you and loving you and you loving HIM and being able to talk about everything. HE will even resort to this in order to get your attention.
proverbs 20.30 (tev), sometimes it takes a painful experience to change our ways.
now not all of the pain is GOD speaking to you. not every little hurt, ache, and pain that you have is GOD. but some of it is. and GOD often has to use pain in order to slow us down to get our attention.
there was an all star basketball player who had back trouble and had a bunch of disks that went out and a pastor friend of his asked him when he was in the hospital, "why do you think this happened?" he said, "GOD had to lay me flat on my back to get me to look up to HIM." has GOD ever had to do that to you?
just a thought from the front porch…
3 comments:
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Riding a bike to work slows you down. There is value in living the necessity of moving slower. I have recently been thinking about the impact of the last year to two. Life has kind of stopped. And it has been good... not comfortable... but good nonetheless. Difficulty deepens you. You begin to appreciate simple things. You flirt with contentment and finally fully embrace it, or you fall into bitterness. Living more slowly and in a manner which requires more physical has helped me realize how I was originally designed to operate best. It gives more time to communicate with God and to fully engage the world into which he placed me.
Fast living can lead to shallow living, and it doesn't matter what presses our foot to the excellerator, we eventually crash. Surviving the wreck teaches our most significant lessons.
I'm happy you crashed and burned! I love how your family loves each other. That love is tied to the accident that was no accident. I'm sure Dad would be thankful his death had as much impact as his life.
Larry
thanks larry, great comment. that situation effected us each one in our own way. i know this past year has also been a difficult one for you and i respect you in how you have come through it.
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