No Pain No Gain

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“LAY BACK DOWN right now. If you don’t your guts are going to be all over the floor.” 

Of course, I did not know the doctor had already ripped through half of the six or eight inches of my lower abdomen with his scalpel in a typical, yet unplanned C-section gone bad. 

 

And, by the way, nothing in all the books I read and the classes my husband and I took mentioned anything about what to do when the epidural only deadens half the body. 

 

I made the wrong choice, but I couldn’t help it.

Without a second to think about the repercussions of my reactive behavior, there was something inside me, triggered by pain, which caused me to take charge of my life with the sole purpose of saving it from peril. 

 

My doctor was supposed to be in charge of my life that day more than thirty years ago when my first daughter was born, and the drugs were supposed to keep me free from pain.

And they both, the doctor and the drugs failed. 

 

That is why I turned into a superhero action figure and sat up on the surgery table. 

 

However, my natural instinct was wrong and if I had not submitted to the man with a knife in his bloody hand, I would have been one step closer to death. 

 

This incident serves as a reminder to me that when things go haywire, God is still in charge of my life and he wants me to trust him.

 

Even when I think I am going to die from the pain, no matter how it is inflicted.

 

Even when I think I should step in and save myself. 

 

Even when I know a counterfeit way to stop the pain. 

 

Even when I think God is unfair, unkind, unloving, unwilling, or unable to manage my life better than me.  

 

The problem, of course, is that I do not like pain.

Pain scares me and I want it out of my body and out of my life.

However, if I try to live a pain-free life, which I most earnestly try to do, I might as well be dead, for only dead people feel no pain. 

 

God has made it clear to me that pain is not the enemy.

Pain is God’s gift to awaken the conscious mind to the very real enemy, which is Death.

That’s Death with a capital D. 

 

Pain is God’s way of reminding you that your life matters and what you do with it matters. 

 

And when the pain becomes chronic or recurring, this is not God punishing you for not being perfect.

 

This is your opportunity to stop the insanity of trying to save yourself with your best thinking and behavior. 

 

This is the time to recognize you are not alone and God stands in front of you, with open arms and a bloody knife, ready to remove the source of your pain. 

 

The choice is yours. 

 

You can try to get through one more day with a gaping wound you may no longer know exists, or you can submit to God who knows exactly the what, where, why, when, and how you need to be healed. The choice is yours. 

 

Will you live or will you die? 

It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.—Jesus (Mark 2:17)

John 21:17-18,Isaiah 45:6-7Acts 9:15-16,Proverbs 19:21,Psalm 27:1Joshua 1:9Isaiah 41:10

As always, it is my intent and hope that my words may encourage you wherever you are in your journey.

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.–Jesus (Mark 4:23)

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