How do you behave when you are in pain?

1 Peter 1:6 “Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:” 

When you fall in love, there will be moments of pain. To bring a child into the Earth, there will be pain. To strengthen your physical body, there will be pain.  To grow spiritually into the person you were sent here to become, there will be pain.

Pain is a part of life. There is a line in the matrix when the computer is talking to Neo and he says something to the effect that they tried to create a world without problems or pain and that the human mind refused to accept it.  We are put here as a training/proving ground. 

A part of what we must go through to obtain eternal life in the age to come. Can you follow the rules? Do you have a strict obedience policy with the Father? Or are you still compromising?

 

 

Hebrews 11:13“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”

Luke 19:13“And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.”

To appreciate the result there has to be effort which generally causes some pain.  You have to make a choice when you are in the center of that pain. How am I going to behave?? Will you grumble and murmur like the children of Egypt; ignoring and neglecting to remain thankful for all that The Most High has done for you? Will you allow the enemy to get in your head and cause you to react out of anger, frustration, or fear? Or will you Stand Up and Smile and Praise The  Most High that He is righteous even when we are not and keep on marching on!

 

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