LEARNING FROM OUR PAIN

Part 2

We concluded Part 1 of “Learning from  Our Pain” with the encouragement to ask the question, “What?  What can I learn from this experience, Lord, and how can I use that knowledge to live in Victory?  . . . . The first step in Learning from Our Pain is to seek Him who is the Source of all Truth, Strength and Life.” 

If we have embraced the Savior, the King, the Husband of our hearts, and if we know that we have been embraced by Father and collected up into His Abba’s lap where we can just let go and lean unto His breast and hear the deep rhythmic beating of His great heart of Love for us, then, indeed, as we grow quiet in His arms, we hear the undercurrent of the River of Life, the Hope of Renewal, even the Promise of Joy, however yet distant, the cry of our Lover’s deep Affection for us.

In that place, and in that place alone, can we actually embrace the pain, turn and lift the suffering up to Him as a Living Sacrifice and wait for the Lessons of Life that will surely come, sometimes soon, sometimes later, often, over periods of time, long seasons of time, for such Lessons must often be learned in installments, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, often repeating the same tunes of Wisdom until they are learned at the deepest levels of our soul. 

Once these Lessons are learned, however, we tend to walk taller, stride with more confidence, lift our head to the sun and declare with Paul the “Song of Victory in the Spirit of Christ Jesus” –

            Who will separate us from the love of Christ?

            Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution,

               or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

            Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being

               put to death all day long; we were considered

              as sheep to be slaughtered.”

            But in all things we overwhelmingly conquer

              through Him who loved us.

            For I am convinced that . . . [noting]

              will be able to separate us from the love of God,

              which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

                                                Romans 8:35-39 (NASB, excerpted, emphasis added)

Last word:  If you have not yet embraced the Love of God by giving yourself over to our Savior, Jesus – I invite you to do so now and to begin to experience this most beautiful journey of Victory in the midst of Pain and Suffering.  I would wholeheartedly invite and encourage you to do that right now:  “. . . At the acceptable time I listened to you, and on the day of salvation I helped you.”  Behold, now is the “acceptable time;” behold, now is “the Day of Salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2).

To be Continued . . . .