Pain Will Go Bye Bye

JAN 6 2026 Those who Endure 

"Pain comes in many forms as well. We may be ridiculed and suffer mental anguish. We may lose someone close to us and suffer the pain of loss. We may be lonely and experience the pain of boredom, isolation, misunderstanding, and frustration. We may be persecuted physically and suffer bodily pain. We may be insulted, resented, hated, despised, spit upon, cast out from the company of others, and experience the pain associated with all these. Yet because of our faith in Christ and our ultimate victory over death, pain can be turned into a blessing, both now and in the time to come.
    Time is an ally of the saints, because it is over the duration of time that God makes all things work together for our good. During times of suffering, God is there to comfort us and we can lift up our eyes from the present conditions and give thanks to God for our eternal home. Suddenly, we are no longer controlled by our circumstances, we have overcome the pain, we have overcome the suffering, and we have, with God's help and power, turned a bad situation into a blessing. We suffer the hatred of others without striking back, because in time we know that God will reward us in some spectacular way beyond our present knowing. We suffer silently, patiently, realizing that God sees and knows and sympathizes with our suffering. In faith, we rise up and claim victory over evil, death, pain, and woe, and simply shout praises. God himself will make everything right and Jesus will give us the victory. We will never die; not really die. We just go to sleep until the resurrection. Always, constantly, we remember the fact that we have complete victory over death and this makes everything else which occurs throughout the days of our lives seem ridiculously unimportant. Our perspective is an eternal perspective, not a temporal one dominated by every fleeting circumstance of life." --excerpt from my book "Kingdom Chronicles"