MENTAL SUFFERING

“The Lord knows the thoughts of man.”

Psalm 94:11

Newspaper Bob Corgett recounts the joke about the cowboy with the arrow sticking through his chest who said, “It only hurts when I laugh.” It is an old story and for doctors it is even older problem, “Pain.” Pain and suffering fall into two basic categories – physical and mental.

Where does God fit into the picture of suffering? Is He disinterested? Has He left man to his own fate?

The Bible tells us that God is vitally concerned with you – as a person made in the image of God. God demonstrated His concern for you in Jesus Christ, whose suffering was not only physical but mental as well. Have you forgotten how Christ sweat as it were great drops of blood in the Garden.

Suffering strips us of hypocrisy and it lays our souls bare. It is as such a time we can experience God’s help and the presence of Christ in a very real way. Sometimes suffering helps us to see ourselves as we really are.

I have heard people say, “When suffering came an I ended up flat on my back, I realized that I had cut God out of my life.” If you are like that, the first step is a personal commitment of your life to Christ. Remember how He suffered? He knows what you are going through.

Suffering will either drive you closer to God or it will drive you further away. It depends on where you put yourself in relationship to suffering. Put it between you and God and you are the loser – put yourself between suffering in God and it will drive you closer to Him. Let it be the doorway to fellowship with Christ as you trust Him as your Lord and Master.

God Bless YOU..

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