7736	Forums / Main Forum / The Purpose Of Pain	on: March 10, 2007, 11:42:26 AM
We have confidence because in saving us He has shed abroad His love into our hearts so that when we experience pain, we have an understanding of His love by that pain. Pain is never absent from His design in using it to further our sanctification.  When we go through trials we are force in some way to get relief from the effects of the trial by focusing on divine knowledge in the revelation of the Word made flesh. In Christ we see the one who went before us and suffered the ultimate pain. In our identification with Him we are identify with His suffering. When we begin to see that Christ chose to suffer on our behalf in His passive obedience we begin to sense the in Christ paradigm. Paul would go to any point at suffering for the church for Christ sake. He saw that his suffering was working for others in the body so that they could grow in their faith and by suffering He was taking on the sufferings of Christ. Paul suffered more than any other man other than Christ. It was Pauls calling to suffer for Christ and the gospel. He endured constant physical punishment, hunger, depression, etc for the spread of the gospel. When we suffer as a result of denying the world flesh and the devil, even tho we havent accomplished as much as the apostle yet our suffering is bringing Him glory. It is just mindless to ignore our level of suffering. When we acknowledge our state before a holy God we are letting God be God. When we come before our Father we are coming before Him as one who has an Advocate, and the blood that was shed on our behalf was of greater value than any thing on this earth. We begin to sense Gods grace like we never sensed it before, because our Fathers disposition of love extends to His suffering saint. He bends low to touch us with an inward healing. We have such a sense of His divine presence that we are drawn out of our present state into a heavenly rejoicing. We are led to glorious thoughts of Christ, who is exalted above the earth. We are led into looking on Christ as the Lord of all, the second Person in the Trinity whos closeness in the trinity is glorious. We begin to see that His condescending love is a trinitarian love that we long for to replace any love that we can experience among mortals. His Fatherly love far surpasses any love that we can bask in on this earth. Our heart is touch by the ministering angels so that we live as if we were enjoying the effects of heavens streams of glory. Through the Trinitarian unity of the Father Son and Holy Spirit we experience Him coming to us as fathers in the Holy Revelation of divine knowledge and in that knowledge we are drawn out of our minds view of this world into a view of Christ that we are constantly seeing. When we begin to realize the He uses our suffering to cause us to look beyond time into eternity, by experiencing the effects of the eternal relationship of a Trinitarian kind then we will be touch by the hand of the angels in glory!