LEARNING FROM OUR PAIN

Conclusion

We learn to turn to the Lord! First, we turn to the great Shepherd. Remember, as 

children we are taught Psalm 23. “The Lord is my shepherd.” He cares for me. He feeds; me brings me to freshwater, and He leads me in Paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake, and then, when we encounter a Valley of the Shadow of Death, He is ever with us. With His rod, He protects us, and with His shepherd’s staff, He rescues us. He prepares us to sit in the presence of our enemies at a table of feasting. He anoints our head with oil, and our cup overflows with the wine of his grace. He pursues us with his goodness and His mercy every day we live, and we will live every day in the House of the Lord!

Then, we learn to turn to the King. In Hebrews 4:16, God the Father invites us to enter into His Presence, into His Throne Room and to approach Him with boldness, with confidence, for, although He is the Almighty God, He is also Abba – our Daddy. He invites us to climb up into His lap and to be held in His great embrace, and He brings to us a sense of the true Peace of his Presence, and we know that it is truly well with our soul.

Finally, we learn to turn to our Best Friend – Jesus, the Son, the Glorious One. In Matthew 11:28, Jesus tells us that when we become weary in the labor of the ministry, we can come to Him. He will place a yoke upon our necks, if we would but permit him to do so, and he will, Himself, place Himself under the other side of the yoke. All that we need to do is to keep pace with Him and walk beside Him as He bears the load and carries the weight and gives us rest for our soul.

No matter what goes on in this world, no matter how bad it may ever seem to grow, we must always remember that in Matthew 5, Jesus told us that we are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. This is not based on how we feel at any given moment. This is our identity. Our body is temple of the Holy Spirit whom we have from God (1 Cor. 6:19); we are a member of the Body of Christ (Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:12), and it is the living God who dwells within us (2 Cor. 6:16), and our Lord and King, Jesus, is knocking upon door of our heart (Revelation 3:20), and he is the anchor of our souls, and he is anchored within the veil, in the throne room of God (Hebrews 619). Therefore, with the tribune God living within us, where ever we go, we must shine forth the light of his love, and every person that we “rub up against” has been given a seasoning of the salt of the glorious God whom we serve.

Once again, and in conclusion:  When in pain, we learn turn to our Good Shepherd, we turn to The King, we turn to your Best Friend; we walk with him; we shine forth the light of God’s love, and we season our society with the salt of the Holy Spirit, and in so doing, we then we learn, yea, we know the true meaning of Living in Victory in Jesus!

May the LORD bless and keep you;

The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you;

The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. ~ Numbers 6:24b-25