one of
the ingredients that go into a change of heart is pain.
psalm
119.71 (msg), my troubles turned out all
for the best. they forced me to learn
from your textbook. my troubles, my pain forced me to pick up the bible
(GOD’s textbook) and learn some principles from GOD.
i want
to be real clear about this. i’m not
saying the pain is good. what is good is
what GOD does in our lives through the pain.
HE gets us out of a destructive lifestyle. HE leads us into eternal life. HE teaches us some principles from HIS
word. that’s what HE does in our
lives.
here is
an example. let’s say that you woke up
last night with some incredible pain in your stomach. because of that pain you were taken into the
emergency room. there they poked and
prodded some more and decided, “you’ve got an appendix that needs to come out,”
and they took your appendix out. the
pain led to your appendix being taken out.
now
let’s say i could have that night when you were in all that pain said, “this
pain, it really is a good thing.” and
you would have looked at me like i was crazy.
but
every one of us knows it’s true. if you
wouldn’t have had the pain you wouldn’t have known you had the trouble. if you hadn’t known you had the trouble, your
appendix would have become more infected.
it would have burst and would have spread infection throughout your
entire body. so it was a good thing.
one of
the ingredients that GOD uses in all of our lives to help us have a change of
heart for the better is pain in our lives.
just a
thought from the front porch…
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