Living With Chronic Pain – Spiritual Healing – Q&A – How Can You Love When You Have Pain?
Q: How can you know love when you live in pain?
A: Straight to the point…
Regardless of our pain or the consequences it might render upon our life, love deserves special recognition for what it really is.
“God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him” (1 John 4:16b, NIV).
From a younger age, if given the opportunity to know God through His Son, Jesus Christ, as children, we tend to express our love for God more freely. Usually we’re not inundated with the hardships of this world. Our emotional make-up is ripe, willing to accept others as well.
Yet, as we become adults, there’s a tendency to suppress or de-sensitize our love for God, as well as mistrusting broken relationships, because we are then entangled within the unforgiving world in which we live. As a result, we fall in love with the lusts of this world. Things like the lusts of our flesh, our eyes and the pride of life consume our thoughts and behaviors. We lose the real meaning about love because we lose the real relationship with God and find ourselves isolated from other relationships.
Then when we confront the realities of pain, a question similar to yours enters into our minds, asking, “How can we know love when we live in pain?”
Our emotional instincts about love are skewed, focusing on the importance and protection of self. As the world screams for us to fulfill our needs of approval, security, identity and purpose through its marred venue, we become essentially lost, not knowing where to go or for that matter, not knowing what love has to do with anything.
Nevertheless, the truth about love is found exclusively through Jesus Christ. It’s neither about what we feel in goodness nor how highly we think about our self-fulfillment. And when you believe in the cornerstone of love…Christ will never leave you. This gift of love will always be with you in spite of your pain. Even though it feels like you’re wearing shackles, love promises to set your soul free so you can really know what it is…
God loves us; not because we are loveable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive from us but because He delights to give.
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