PAIN IS A FRIEND

Posted on July 9, 2009

Get this great truth down, and it'll help you deal with life:
Everything learned is from pain.
Everything else is just information.
My friend, Bob Warren, coined this phrase, as he studied various scriptures that attest to it.
(Romans 5:3-5 and James 1:2-4).

Bob's adage is so accurate because it recognizes that pain drives us to trust God from the bottom of our hearts, instead of trying to figure out everything on our own.  When we listen to His voice in everything we do, He keeps us on track and blesses us (Proverbs 3:5-6). 
 
But it is the pain that compels us to plunge into His arms.  Otherwise, we won't turn to Him.  Without hardships, we tend to unconsciously stay wrapped up in ourselves and our own ways, even as Christians.  Consequently we don't experience the love of God in a deep, most profound way. Read my 7/09/09 blog about how the pain of separation from my young children brought me to personally experience God's love in a way I never had.)

Pain is a friend.  It drives us to the only true source for hope, joy and, above all, love.

Is there a painful situation that you have learned from? I would like very much to hear from you. Email me tell me your story. If you are willing I may use it; your true identity would be withheld.

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The Benefit of Pain through Separation from my Kids
by Gary Chester

A most profound sense of pain came during a long physical separation from my son and daughter when they were small.  After a divorce, I wound up several hundred miles from them.  This was during a formative time in their lives when they needed an involved dad on the scene, not a father who only was able to be with them four or five times a year. 
Circumstances were beyond my control, at that time, read more


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