As human beings we each face pain at some point in our lives. We will each face those molehills that we tend to turn into mountains and we will each face the gut wrenching pain that brings us to our knees. Pain will come to each of us in different forms and at different points of our lives and one person’s pain is not greater or less than the next person’s; God allows it to touch us in different ways and leads us down different roads through it.
Until you have held the hand of a parent as he/she draws his/ her last breath you cannot understand. Until you have buried a child you cannot understand. Until you have walk through divorce you cannot understand. Until you have sat in a room full of chemo patients as they are filled with poison that is supposed to heal them you cannot understand. Until you have fought for your life against any type of sickness you cannot understand. Until you have held your child who has been given a death sentence you cannot understand. Until you have had a miscarriage you cannot understand. Until you have had to visit your child in prison/jail you cannot understand. Until you have had failed adoptions you cannot understand. Until you have a womb that will not produce you cannot understand. Until you have watched your parent and/or child continuously fight the battle of addiction you cannot understand. Until you have faced a rapist up close you cannot understand. Until you have lived the shame and loneliness of teenage pregnancy you cannot understand. Until you have experienced the suffering of not being able to provide for your family you cannot understand. Until you know the darkness of abandonment you cannot understand. Until you find yourself homeless you cannot understand. This list could go on and on….
As I said in the beginning, we will each face pain; pain that will draw tears; pain that will make you nauseated and physically vomit; pain that will buckle your knees with weakness….no person’s pain/sorrow is greater than the another’s. We can choose to make idols of our sorrow, but when we do that, we must realize we are also choosing to allow joy to pass us by (not happiness, joy). We begin to attempt to steal or shadow others’ joy. We begin to make others feel as if they have to hide their joy and what God has done for them in fear of causing more hurt.
God accepts no idol above himself whether it be materialistic or emotional. He tells us to lay our burdens, our hurt and pain, down before Him. He tells us He will make a way. It may not be the way we desire or the timing we desire, but HE WILL MAKE A WAY FOR THE THINGS THAT GLORIFY HIM, not us. More than likely He will move you into your least comfortable place FOR HIS GLORY.
If you are at the top of your mountain, pain will come (especially when you decide to surrender to God). If you are in the lowest of valleys, do not allow it to bury your joy, as your day of happiness will come.