We live in a world that constantly produces pain. Many people – God’s people – are feeling some type of way these last few days, and it’s a feeling that is not unfamiliar. We are hurting. It’s emotional hurt, mental anguish, spiritual pain. The world makes a habit of delivering pain. It dishes it out in teaspoons sometimes. Other times it comes in heaping portions. It rains down like hails of fire, burning our umbrella. It threatens to destroy us. But, even as it seems to dull with time, we keep remembering. We remember the hurt. We recall the pain. We carry the memory of hurt in our minds, and we rehearse our response to it. We shape our promises to avoid the next storm – what we are going to do next time; what we’re NOT gonna do next time! And that keeps the pain alive.
But God’s Word reminds us of better promises. Our Divine Creator has better things in mind for us. His desire for us is that our souls prosper. Jesus bore our pain in his body, mind and soul, so that we would have better things – peace, joy, love. Our Savior was raised from the worse pain – the pain of death. There is now a path from the pain that the world forces upon us to the blessings of the soul that God provides. That path is the path of healing.
Our Prayer:
Merciful God our Father, we are thankful that even during perilous times, You are with us. After all, this is Your world and we are Your people. You created us in Your image. You breathed life into us. And even though You knew that we disregard You way too often, You promised to be with us. That is an extraordinary promise because You know that we have taken the good world that You created and have made it painful. Forgive us Lord. We stand on Your promises because we are in pain. We suffer from the emotional, mental, and spiritual hurt that we cause each other. So now, again, we approach Your throne of Grace. We approach with the knowledge of Your Word, that we can find mercy and grace in our time of need. Heal us Lord. In Christ name and for Your glory we pray. Amen
The ELL Word 