When you suffer pain because you are not fulfilling fleshly desires then your pain is accompanied by emotional turmoil.
When you suffer pain with the understanding that it is a cross and serves a high and holy purpose, then you accept it to the degree that you Love Me and trust Me and want My purposes to be fulfilled through you.
- Example:
A woman who suffers from headaches cries and frantically searches for an immediate cure. But a mother who has a newborn baby and has headaches from sleep deprivation accepts the headaches peacefully, knowing that they are a small price to pay for her little one to be taken care of.
Accept the pain of following Me peacefully knowing that you and I are bringing Life to earth with each sacrifice. Divorce your emotions from your spirit. Let the pain lie peacefully within you until its work is done. I know your limits.
The pain is the key or secret to Our closeness with you.
The more pain We have together, the closer you and We become .
The bread of pain and the wine of fellowship go together.
Look at what the cross did.
- Luke 14:27-28 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
- Hebrews 10:34 You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.
- James 1:2-8 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything…