Christ Walks Through With Us

I wrote this to a Sister in the Lord as she shared some health difficulties. I know that everything we go through has a purpose and when we come through it we are stronger than we were before.

James 1:2-8
"2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."

It is not necessarily the healing we always pray for even though that is our first response. It is the strengthening of our character, wisdom and holiness that we seek.

I have had a lot of pain and a lot of surgeries over the years. It seems I become a little less agitated by it with each new thing. LOL!!!

When I am not having pain I rejoice because it feels so good.

Don't know what the next thing is, always hope there are no more.

I remember the days as a child when I fell off my bike or dropped a whole crate of berries I had picked while falling in the dirt. I actually laughed and cried at the same time. I did the same thing just recently when I slipped on some spilled gasoline while I was filling the lawn mower.

Then I found out I had cracked ribs and a small fracture in my foot. I felt silly to have had the accident. I have had two cesarean sections up and down, a hysterechtomy, tonsils removed as a child, gall bladder removed, mashed disk surgery on my neck, severe headaches that caused throwing up for three days, several of those, yep I am very familiar with pain.

I always cry out to God on those terrible headaches. I have asked for God to heal me or take me home. They are like labor pains in my head, only those who have had them can understand it.

Its alright to cry, its alright to tell the truth about our feelings, it gets everything out in the open to be dealt with, Job did it, it brought healing to him to express what was inside. But then we don't remain there, we move on to emotional healing through trusting in Christ as He goes through with us.

I bragged for years that I never had a broken bone, until last summer when I had those pratfalls. I guess God got tired of my bragging about that. I don't brag about anything anymore. LOL

God knows I have had a lot to learn!!!

Hallelujah!!!