Pain

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C.S. Lewis from The Problem of Pain. Think of the last time you were in pain. What else could you dwell on, consider, wonder about other than when would you be relieved of the agony, the suffering? Have you ever thought that death would be far better than enduring the pain? No matter the cause of pain, excruciating physical dis ease can change a persons perspectives, attitudes and behaviour, making them almost unrecognizabe or perhaps, more themselves? I recall the results following my first adjustment by a chiropractor. I floated out of the office on an invisible sea of pain free bliss. I had not known what feeling fantastic was like until after the treatment, once everything was back in its original place. Emotional pain is similar to physical pain and can be just as debilitating. If God whispers, speaks and than shouts, what are your ears doing to block Him out? Notice: it is in peril, it is in desperation, it is in the dying or the threat there in when we call out for salvation, restoration to wholeness, wellness of being. Who can save you from your pain, your death, your dying? "I'm not sick", you say? "No need to have this conversation. I don't want to think about it, talk about it would you just SHUT UP about it already?" you yell. People wonder about God and suffering, how He could possibly love us and allow so much suffering. He is the Great Physician, Healer of bodies and hearts, a Soul Surgeon. Regular check ups with Him can mean a world of health and pain relief. Unstop your ears and listen, He whispers before He shouts~don't make Him pull out that megaphone now. Go to Him before He calls your number.