Pain and Suffering

[332 words] We are dealing with pain and suffering. Our varying degrees of “hurt” are different because we all are on different journeys to the same place. Our labor and toil are met each day with emotional, social, financial, and physical pain. Our wounds can make us incapable of moving from one hour to another. Have we received bad news from the doctor? Do we have too much month left when it’s time to pay bills? Does that chronic condition continue to pound us? Are we missing someone we love? Has someone we love turned their back on God? Let us consider how we can deal with pain and suffering. Regardless of demographic, we are burdened in this tabernacle. Second Corinthians 5:4 says, “For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed by life.”…