Good morning! How are we faithing? Pain is real. Ever notice if you tell your Mom or your spouse something hurts they want to rub it? What's that? Also if someone tells you they are hurting emotionally we want to rub it to make it better by speaking platitudes? Pain, other than a mechanism to let you know you stepped on a rusty nail, is for a purpose. We can choose to let it cause immense fear and trepidation or we can learn from it. Scars come from pain and those scars can be reminders of what we've learned or can be bitter reminders of how we have been wronged. Your choice. I choose to let them be used to warn me so next time I don't make the same mistake.  I choose to use them to show someone else I understand and want to stand with them as they develop a similar scar. The love of Jesus for us is so huge that he bears scars on his body to prove it. I suppose when he looks on those scars he doesn't see the indignation or the heinous acts committed on him but the love he feels for us all.  He may be reminded that we are worth it. The Apostle Paul even had a "thorn in his side"  that reminded him of just how big the love of Jesus is that even through that thorns pain he didn't puff up but remember what our savior did for us because of his love for us.  We need to look at pain through different glasses.  We need to see the lessons learned and apply them to our lives. Is your pain a wake up call to something bigger than your self? Is it to remind you to  forgive like you want to be forgiven or are you going to inflict pain in a like manner? I want you to think today when pain comes. Don't step on the nail again and don't lay that board down for someone else to step on it too.


Rom 8:28
 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.



Joh 16:21
  A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.

 Psa 37:7-8
  Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing.





Heavenly Father,
  The pain in this world is hard to deal with sometimes. Grant us the courage and wisdom to deal with our pain and see the lesson in it. Lord we want to see you and want to follow you and your ways. We do ask for forgiveness when we miss what we need to see. Help us always look for a lesson so we can help others as well as our selves. Let us reject and run from selfishness, in Jesus name, amen