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| Why The Pain? [html] CAN I BE FREE FROM MY PAIN? I hurt when I feel rejected. I hurt when I'm left out. I hurt when I realize that I've hurt someone I love. I hurt when I remember some of my life's traumatic memories. I hurt when I think that my childhood was lost. When we realize and relive some of the hurts in our lives, we wish they would go away and that we can get back to that “feel good” place. But hurts demand attention, and we do just about whatever it takes to ease the pain. Sometimes we just stuff it into a place inside us that gives us temporary relief. Of course, we all know that we will have to deal with it again. Stuffed pain is like that, it lives, and it has power. Power to make us hurt again. We often do other, unfortunate things to deal with our pains. We may decide that it's someone else's fault that we're in pain, so we just shift some blame onto them and begin to let our minds believe that they are the reason we hurt. We will then isolate ourselves from that person, if not physically at least emotionally. We can do this to the point that we are isolated from everyone. However, this is not a solution that heals our hurts, it just puts us in a place where we hurt alone. Often we try to make the hurts go away by using substances that do actually give us a sense of peace and even joy for a little while. We may even choose food to be that substance. We may choose sex or sex related activities in our search for the peace we desire and freedom from the pain we carry. All of these things seem to work temporarily, but they are just that - “temporary.” I am sure of one thing, we all carry pain. It's the human condition for having been born and lived in a sinful, fallen world. If any one of us could have been born into what we might describe as the perfect family with the perfect environment, we would still have hurts. Don't be offended, but we've all sinned and we all continue to sin. Jesus paid the penalty of sin for us all. If we could save ourselves we would, but alas we can't. The ONLY answer to our sinful dilemma is JESUS. Jesus is our Savior. The way we get from pain to peace in all the hurts that have accumulated in our hearts is to allow our loving, understanding Savior to help us. This is the reason He paid such a tremendous price, it was the penalty that had to be paid in order for Him to provide the place we need (in Him) to begin to be free. Jesus said that “if we know the truth, the truth will set us free”. We decide, it's our choice, to choose bondage or freedom, to choose pain or peace.
If you would like to know more, please contact: Prayer Ministry Center in Williamsburg at 757-253-2270 We care, and we will get back to you.
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