{"id":1132,"date":"2020-08-24T06:21:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T10:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2022-09-30T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T18:53:19","slug":"6-purposes-in-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/6-purposes-in-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Purposes in Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
For the widow the word pain<\/em> immediately takes you to a familiar experience with an uncomfortable reality. Life includes moments and seasons of suffering whether physical, emotional, or spiritual. A lot of us can acknowledge feeling pain, especially in recent days, whether that be from a disappointment, physical illness, loss of loved one, or life as we once knew it rapidly changing before our eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pain gets our attention, for sure, acting as a type of alarm for action. To state the obvious, pain hurts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The mystery of pain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pain is often wrapped up in mystery. We may never know why God allowed pain to intersect our life, yet pain will eventually serve a purpose. Most of the time, pain lasts longer than we desire tempting us to choose pity over purpose. We must be careful to fight against a negative inward focus when things aren\u2019t going our way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A woe-is-me<\/em> attitude is available to all, but not a path that leads to healing or peace. At the root are lies from the enemy: you are alone, no one cares, you should\u2026 you shouldn\u2019t\u2026 The deadly companions of these lies are envy, jealousy, and bitterness. Self-pity is contagious and addictive. Beware of this sin that so easily entangles us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God<\/em>\u201d (2 Corinthians 4:15).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n For the widow the word pain immediately takes you to a familiar experience with an uncomfortable reality. Life includes moments and seasons of suffering whether physical, emotional, or spiritual. A lot of us can acknowledge feeling pain, especially in recent days, whether that be from a disappointment, physical illness, loss of loved one, or life as we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,29],"tags":[],"blog_author":[31],"authors_name":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"blog_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_author?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"authors_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors_name?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The 6 purposes in pain<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n