PAIN ?       

I heard a heart wrenching story today. It pulled at the strings of my heart in so many different directions.

Pain can do that; pain can cause a 'tug of war' on the cords of our heart. It can leave you confused with an inability of placement. Not knowing where and how to place pain is what I believe to be one of the most damaging moments in the human heart.

When the striking of pain comes at us like an arrow of fire through the dark or a spear of iron... in that very moment and every moment to follow only ONE Man can save.

No matter how hard we try 'not to be human' the human heart was created for love and all that is Not kin to that love is a natural violation, an undeniable current of crime. 

I have always seen myself as a strong woman. Strong in my emotions and character, and in this I categorized the way pain came at me, (whether it be by man or other natural circumstances)as "Water off a ducks back", telling myself, "I am okay, no big deal, I just forgive and forget and move on." It is amazing how powerful the human heart is; it can experience overwhelming hurt and simultaneously creative concealment of that hurt; a developed character of coping. Only the human heart can manage this complex behavior.

The reality of pain is that though we were made for love, pain has given love an even greater strength in that had I not known pain I would not have known the power of love.

I have come to the realization that when I am hurt it is OKAY to feel that hurt, to experience it for what it is. I'll even go as far as to say we must allow ourselves to relate wholeheartedly to that injury, that pain, that sorrow if we are to walk in healing. 

If we believe that we are closed to the access of hurt and pain we are merely trying to make up for all the years of present hidden pain in our lives. 

Oh yes, we should not be easily offended or shall I say hurt, but the truth be told many people have been bearing burdens of pain ignorantly, and in this a simple flick of the pinky causes unbearable pain. This pain has different sounds and voices coming from counterfeit people within, they are misplaced because that's what hidden pain accomplishes, and given names they would be:

the guardian

the warrior

the timid servant

the bouncer

 the pimp

the cave dweller

the watchman

the cool

the harmonizer

the satisfier

the abandoned

the beaten

the pleaser

the grit

the scared child

Don't get me wrong, all these voices are understandable, but not knowing where and how to place pain results in pain placing you.    

I believe the only way

to understand, face, and place pain rightly is looking unto the ONE who bore the pain of the world.

How did He do it, how did the Lord Jesus face the pain of humanity on the cross? Did He shrug it off, did He act as though it wasn't so bad, or that He wasn't bothered by it?

NO

He felt and related to every measure of it's infliction. He bore the true weight of it, no more, no less. Every deep dark despairing breath of turmoil, torchure, and tug of war to His heart.

He Seen The Pain

He took The Pain

He Went Through The Pain

He Forgave The Pain

He Died To It

He Left It In The Grave

He Forgot It

He Stands In Victory Over It

He Is Smiling

How can He now be smiling, How is that possible?

Because in facing and placing the pain it was turned into joy!

I can testify of this marvelous truth. Yes, our pain can be turned into joy, but only ONE can lead you through the Way of this dynamic truth.

Precious one, I encourage you to be real with the pains of your life, they cry out for their transformation unto joy, so that you may stand SMILING!