All suffering, one way or another, is from Satan.
When you reach heaven, all pain and suffering will be gone.
Although we believe this idea to be true, our pain and suffering tries to block
our belief in heaven as a real place in real time. The satanic evil causing
pain is insidious. Once we understand the purpose of Satan in putting pain upon
us is to undermine our faith, we can then come back and stand against the
influence of pain upon our heart and soul. Christ may not make our pain go
away. What Christ will do is give us power to never relent, never give in, and
never give up as we battle Satan, who makes us suffer.
The suffering of Christ was caused by human sin. Human sin
was the result of Satan coming into the garden of Eden and causing Adam and Eve
to fall away from God. Satan attacks each of us, just as Satan attacked Adam
and Eve. All Christ's pain and suffering was put upon Christ at the hands of
Satan. Satan was not content to make human beings fall. Satan wanted Christ to
fall. Satan wanted Christ to renounce His Father in heaven. However, Christ has
such love for each of us Christ would not turn away from His Father in heaven.
Christ will never turn away from any of us. What will be our response? Will we
remain rebellious and always turn away from Christ, or will we change and turn
toward our Lord who suffered and died for each of us?
Many of our rewards for staying faithful during suffering
come to us when we reach Heaven. We do not know and we will never know how
wonderful heaven will be. We will know when we cross over from death to life
everlasting the full and complete power, love, and light of Christ. We must
stay faithful not to get a reward on earth or in heaven. We must stay faithful
because Christ loves us and we love Him. We must stay faithful because we want
to serve Him, to give to Him, rather than to get from Him.
How we experience joy and peace in pain is a mystery.
However, our experience and testimony about this mystery confirms our
experience. In our human experience, we find our ability to stand against pain
and suffering is enhanced when we begin to surrender our pain and suffering up
to God. Surrendering up to God is not easy. Surrendering up to God may be the
most difficult task any of us ever accomplish. However, if we can let God touch
our hurt, we will experience His joy and peace, even when we hurt.
Although it may sound ludicrous in the beginning when your
pain is the worst, as you progress in the healing process in Christ's arms,
later on the scars from the hurt can be counted as blessings. After we have
surrendered up our pain, we can experience the healing love of Christ. At the
moment we surrender up our pain, at the very instant we let Christ touch our
pain, Christ also touches us. This moment of touching, this instant, when
Christ's presence in our pain, is the instant we can then exclaim as His
blessing in our life.
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