There Is a Purpose For Pain

Pain plants the flag of reality in the fortress of the rebel heart.  How unfinished and rebellious and proud and unconcerned we would be without suffering changing us!  So simply say, “Thank you, Lord, for this test” for it WILL strengthen you.

Fact: God does indeed comfort good people when bad things happen to them.  Trouble never leaves us where it finds us; sorrow will always change our tomorrow.  God inspires us to become better, not bitter.

Pain is inevitable but misery is optional.

Christian life is not deliverance FROM trouble, but deliverance IN trouble.  God gives us life as we overcome, not an overcoming life.  Only when you spend yourself will you strengthen yourself.

Sacrifice is the currency of God’s kingdom.                                                          

Thank God for your adversity.  If it is from the devil, he will stop since God is getting the credit for it.  If it is from God, then at least your gratitude is getting to the right place.

I think sometimes it takes a life-changing event to make us really see the way we’re living based on the choices we’ve made.  (Jana DeLeon)

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.     (Dick Cavett)

Sleep, riches and health – to be enjoyed fully – must be interrupted.   (J. P. Richter)

It is unkind to attribute every sorrow to God’s punishment; suffering can be used to glorify God.

Neither this man nor his parents sinned – but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in his life (John 9:3).

God’s economy is upside down from the world’s economy.  God says: the more hopeless your circumstances, the more likely your salvation; the greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers; the darker the room, the more need for light.

We are better able to appreciate blessing if we endure hardships.

Our target is to glorify our Lord Jesus.  Tears sometimes blur our vision, but we must remember our position in Christ and continue on.

Helping others in distress begins when we share their pain.  [Trust comes when we share our pain.]

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will by no means clear the guilty.  The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet (Nahum 1:3).

“Clouds are the dust of His feet.”  Clouds are a sign that God is there…  Sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are therefore actually the clouds that come along with God, because God is always with us.