After about 70km on the bike (in the blazing sun) this morning I started to think about...pain. Pain most certainly is not pleasant and no one likes to be in pain. But what it does is it brings life and everything around you into sharp focus. Pain makes you feel, think, question, doubt...
Pain is also so much more than just a physiological sensation it has emotional, psychological and social implications
I can’t help think about Jesus and the time in his life when he was falsely accused, betrayed, arrested, tortured and nailed to a cross. He knows what it is to experience pain, he was not exempt from it, and even though he did ask the father if this cup could be taken from him...he still embraced it, I think because he knows that pain has value. The Bible talks a lot about perseverance, for example in the book of Revelation it talks about the fact that those who persevere will inherit the kingdom of God. Pain is one way of testing our Perseverance.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hebrews 12:1 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” (NIV)
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