Sunday, March 05, 2006

pain

Sometimes on good days it is easy to forget that I am disabled on other days like the last couple of days it is hard to want to go on. I sometimes find myself wishing that Jesus would come back soon so that my suffering would finally be over. When I feel like this it helps me to remember this passage in the Bible,

Isaiah 40:27-31 (NIV)

27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
and complain, O Israel,
"My way is hidden from the LORD;
my cause is disregarded by my God"?

28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.

29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.

30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;

31 but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

So little by little I carry on trying to carry the message to others that are still suffering without hope, without love and without companions.

God is out there and He loves all of us From the worst sinner alive, yes even murders to the least sinner out there. He does not care if you are gay, straight, black, white, brown, male, female or both, rich, poor, healthy, or sick. He loved all of us so much that He gave up His only begotten son for us.
Could you sacrife your child for someone else? I don't think I could but yet God did. And not only that the only man in history to truley know right from wrong and yet be completely sinless, to be completely human and yet completely divine willingly laid down His life for us. Surely there no greater love than this. Jesus was beaten so badly that when He returns no one will recognise his face as even being human so that everyone will know just by looking at Him what He endured for us.

So if Jesus did all this for us and then sent the Holy spirit to live inside of us to help us and guide us then some pain that will end when God sees fit to take me home or come back is bearable.

We are to put to death the deeds of the body well putting up with the pain and not giving into it as some would is my way of putting to death the deeds of the body.

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