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How can pain be a gift?

Adrian Rogers

Love Worth Finding

 In the same way that physical pain tells us that we need to see a doctor, emotional or spiritual pain crowd us toward Christ and give us a heavenly perspective, according to Romans 8:18. Without some “thorns” in our nest, we would get comfortable on this old sinful earth and never seek the Lord. As God’s people, we are not citizens of earth on our way to heaven. We are citizens of heaven sojourning for a time on earth.

By Adrian Rogers. © 2006 Love Worth Finding Ministries. Website. www.lwf.org.

Dr. Adrian Rogers, preacher/teacher of Love Worth Finding Ministries, and one of America's most respected Bible teachers. Under his 32 years of pastoral leadership, Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, TN, grew from 9,000 members in 1972 to more than 29,000.

 Most important to Dr. Rogers have been the tens and thousands of believers who have had their faith strengthened and thousands of others who have for the first time entered into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Dr. Rogers passed away on November 15, 2005

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rev.Carol
1/26/2010 5:57 PM
I understand that emotional and spiritual pain can draw us closer to God. I also understand that physical pain can achieve the same purpose. My older daughter has an illness similar to Parkinsons, also Dystonia. The drugs she takes for these illnesses have rotted her teeth and she faces a kidney transplant in years to come. She has a damaged spine, 3 vertebrae in her neck area and two in her lower back. For the pain she takes massive dozes of morphine. On her bad days (which are more normal than not)it may take her an hour or more to get out of bed and even with the morphine she is sobbing with pain. She is a born again believer and despite being told that if she had more faith she would be healed - has held on to her faith. I live 250 miles away and in some ways I am glad because when she visits me (I am in bed all the time with M.E.)my heart is broken just watching her suffering. It hurts so much I find it difficult to deal with.
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Danaanad
11/27/2008 10:56 PM

hoffmanhaus1,
Dr. Adrian was giving us an example of what emotional or spiritual pain "should" do to us as CHRISTIANS. But we have free will so not always do we as Christians chose to do the right thing when faced with emotional or spiritual pains. As christians, the cares and pain of the world you get as a result of sin, SHOULD drive you to Christ. So the reason we don't see the whole world saved is because those "pains" don't have the same effect on non believers. You will not see them running to Christ in those times of pain if they do not know him.
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hoffmanhaus1
8/1/2008 11:24 AM
Paul's thorn was was not given by God nor was it sickness .If you read Paul's story you will figure out just what his thorn was. Paul was a christian in the first place. The thorn did not drive him to Christ in fact it did not even make him closer to God. He came to Christ when he he saw the truth of Jesus.
Not the cares, or pain of the world, you get as a result of sin, will drive you to Christ . If this were so all the world would be saved. You get saved when you realize that you are a sinner on your way to hell.
In Christ
Jay
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