Unshackled Moments ~ April 9 ~ When It Still Hurts

Life can be hard. It can be unfair. We find relationship with God, and no matter that we know better, we often have a sense that everything should be coming up roses from then on. We suffered and went through miserable because we didn't have relationship with our Creator. Shouldn't relationship with Him  mean an end to suffering then? Shouldn't the healing always come? Shouldn't the pain instantly end, or end at all? Shouldn't all our wounds be healed and our scars fade? Why must life still hurt? Why shouldn't everything get better.

Well, it will, eventually. Every wound will heal, every pain be soothed and suffering will end. Just not on this side of eternity. Sometimes the healing comes. Sometimes the suffering is removed. But sometimes we go through hell so that we can help others who are going through hell and have not yet learned that  we can lean on God in the Valley of Shadows. As we are refined in the fires and learn to run to God, we find the path to peace in the midst of every circumstance. We can then show others that our circumstances don't have to control our lives. We can help others because we have been there, because there was no instant fix but rather something better. Even when we made our bed in hell God is with us. So today, let us take our time in days of trouble as an avenue to sympathize with and help others who don't know that hope can live in the presence of pain.

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