I heard the above in a conference just recently and it rang a bell with me. How often do we put up with things because it’s comfortable although we know things need to change? It’s not until we actually begin to experience a great deal of discomfort or pain, sometimes of an urgent nature, that we do something about changing the situation. And it’s usually at that point that we reach out to our God.
Our bodies do the same when we ignore the warning signals. And before we know it we’re being rushed off to hospital to undergo some procedure that might have been avoided had we taken notice of the pain. And of course, with pain change is required - a change to lifestyle, a change to diet, a change to all sorts of things in our lives and we rarely can return to our old way of life.
‘Remember that I am made of dust - will you turn me back to dust so soon? You guided my conception and formed me in the womb’ Job 10:9-10 NLT
God brings upon us many things that are designed to help us develop patience. Often we ignore those things until they get crucial and when they do we go through a lot of refining. Our faith is tested, strengthened and deepened and the pain we experience is often deep too. It could be emotional stress, physical pain, anxiety, a number of things, but once we come through it we recognise that we’ve also been experiencing some changes in our lives and those changes were accompanied by pain in various ways. As we get older, hopefully we begin to recognise those signs much quicker, and the change can be accepted with less pain involved. KMT
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