LIFE’S PAINFUL EXPERIENCES CAN BLESS HURTING PEOPLE!
Today’s Message of Encouragement from Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES
(Stories of Real People, Real Events, Real Places)
And are dedicated to HELPING
PEOPLE FIND PEACE and HOPE
(John 10:10)
(Ron Bainbridge Editor) (February 26th, 2020)
LIFE’S PAINFUL EXPERIENCES
CAN BLESS HURTING PEOPLE!
Friends, emotional pain hits each of us head-on in such forms as disappointment, unanswered prayer, fears, guilt, or unending stress about our future, loneliness, and general unhappiness.
I know you have possibly heard the following five questions:
· Why do I experience trouble and failure over and over again in my life?
· Why are my relationships with others so disappointing?
· Why doesn’t God answer my prayers?
· Why am I afraid of the future?
· Why am I just basically unhappy with my life?
Perhaps you may do what I do—listen a lot because you care about people. Deep down in their hearts, people wonder if they are viewed as “whiners” or not tough enough to overcome the darkness that comes into our lives from time to time.
Answers sometimes come to us like these. “Have faith,” “you just have to trust better,” “read your Bible regularly,” and “improve your prayer life.” But sometimes nothing seems to help and we don’t think anyone wants to hear it anymore.
Well, I have discovered an amazing truth, something you probably already knew a long time ago!
You can use your pain as an avenue of God’s blessing for someone else in great emotional pain.
You can provide compassionate empathy by sharing with a hurting person what has helped you the most in a dark, dark time.
In fact, you can light a faith candle to light the soul of another sufferer. I know this to be true, because through my own personal battles in life God has often used that suffering to make a difference in another sufferer’s life.
Friend, how about the painful experiences of your life right now? Have they made you more willing to hold the hand of a fellow struggler? I sincerely hope the answer is Yes!
If you are interested, we would be pleased to send you a helpful (FREE) booklet written by Randy Becton. This booklet is titled “You’re Not Alone” and it provides some practical answers that may help you come alongside a wounded spirit with the strength God provides.
Remember the five “Why?” questions with which I began this message? Each one of them involves a complicated pain. But with God all things are possible and it is His love and compassionate character that precedes our efforts to encourage someone in pain.
In fact, if we will let Him, God will provide us with the strength and grace to see us through our difficult times (Isaiah 40:27-31).
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“Although the world is full of suffering,
It is also full of the overcoming of it.”
(Helen Keller, 1880 – 1968)
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