Living With Chronic Pain – Spiritual Healing – Know Christ In Suffering
In the midst of suffering, do you really want to discover who Jesus Christ is? Take a minute and catch your breath. Pause for a second and contemplatively think hard about your circumstances.
As much as pain might be pressing against your very being as you read this blog, I encourage you to press back even more so into your faith about Jesus. The more you endure your painful trials, and the more you debride your preconceived agendas about self-importance, the more you can enter into Jesus Christ’s feelings when He remained completely obedient to the voice of His Father.
Before His death on the cross, Jesus expressed very human moments of despair as blood droplets rolled from His sweat glands. This demonstration of humanism allows us to relate to Him very deeply when it comes to the subject of suffering. He truly knows what you’re going through and He gives you the opportunity to comprehend what He endured for you when He was savagely crucified on the cross.
To know Christ is to glean all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, even as it relates to compassionate understanding about suffering.
Listen to His voice in scripture. Try to eliminate the distractions of your pain and the noise of this world. His Holy Spirit lives within you and communicates the very thoughts of God. You can truly know Him because your suffering brings you to the end of yourself. This is the fringe benefit of suffering. “For the end of self is the beginning of God.”
If you sense that you want to know Christ more, it’s because He first wants to know and love you more. He’s already initiated the campaign for intimacy for everyone who calls upon His name. It’s unbelievable. At this very moment, Jesus is interceding for both you and me. He really knows our pains and losses as well as our hope in a glorious future.
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