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From the Pulpit...
Owner/Publisher: Rob Wood
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ll of us have gone through a painful time in our lives at some point. It doesn't matter if it's a relationship break up or the pain of the rejection, I think we have all felt it. Or the pain from a divorce, which honestly feels like a death, because we were never meant to divorce once married; the pain from an injury, such as broken bones or as small as a cut on a finger that needs stitches; a sickness or death of a friend or family member. At times, life can be so hard. Without any warning, the storms in our lives just come over us. I know for myself, I personally have gone through a lot of painful seasons. I also know
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God feels your PAIN!
that some people have gone through a lot more than I have, and that doesn't mean that their pain or my pain is any less or more painful. Pain is pain, no matter what anybody says, and God knows this; He feels your pain. We have come a long way from the Garden of Eden, where there was no pain, no sickness, no hunger, no war, no violence of any kind. Animals didn't harm each other, nor did Adam and Eve eat meat; everything lived in perfect harmony and peace. Genesis 1:29-30 says, "And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so." The Garden of Eden
was perfect until the fall came, when satan as a serpent deceived Eve with the fruit of trees. Genesis 3:1-6 says, "Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but not the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'" Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, Knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She gave to her husband with
her, and he ate." Pain, although it is for a season in our lives, can leave more than a physical scar; it also leaves very deep invisible scars that can last a lifetime if we don't seek help for that pain. So where does someone turn to for help? Do they go to a family member or friend? You can do that. Should you go to a doctor? Yes, you can if you're not well. Should you go to a Psychiatrist? Again, you can do that. But wouldn't it easier to go to the Lord instead, to tell Him all that you are going through? The secret is that He already knows what you are going through and He feels your Pain! Isn't it easier to go to someone that truly loves you more than anyone else? I think it would be. Jesus Christ felt your pain through His own, almost two thousand years ago. He felt all these pains that we feel today, while He was in the hands of the Romans. Jesus was beaten so
