Living with Pain
Trouble and pain are inexorably intertwined. Overcoming, or breaking the pain barrier, is one of the secrets of victorious living. It is estimated that one of every four-hundred thousand babies born will have a rare genetic disease called dysantonomia. Victims are unable to feel pain and usually die early. Persons, athletes in particular, have their careers altered because they take drugs to dull pain rather than discovering and treating the source of the problem. Pain is not God’s way of punishing people; but rather His way of warning persons that something is wrong physically, mentally, or spiritually.
Jesus did not shy away from difficulties. “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? No, for this purpose I have come to this hour” (John 12:27–28).
