Most people run from pain. They seek to avoid as much pain as possible. However, decisions made when running from pain just bring that much more pain to a person. Words spoken from the reservoir of pain result in more pain for the speaker and listener alike. A lifestyle lived with pain in control is a lifestyle so influenced by the power of pain that the hurt throbs inside to the point that every thought, word, and deed is infused with its negative effects. Every relationship tie then is strained by the need of the person wounded by mental/emotional damage to attempt to pull comfort from the relationship. But if the other person has a similar well of pain that he/she is drawing from, comfort won’t be found, only intensified discomfort.
Trouble, and the pain that comes from it, are a part of life (Job 4:8; Job 5; Job 14:1; Matt. 6:34; II Cor. 1:8). It is our reaction to trouble/pain that is the key.
Running from pain involves some of the following attributes/strategies (among others):
walls/filters/fear/mistrust/accepting lies of the enemy/unforgiveness/bitterness/blame/judgment/critical spirit/control/resistance to the Spirit’s leading/resistance to the Spirit’s comfort/unteachable/stubbornness/ignoring issues/avoidance/hiding/rebelliousness
Pain can’t be masked with popularity, position, prestige, power, degrees, or titles. It is unaffected by self-help books/courses and inner peace techniques (Prov.25:19).Typical worldly counseling or surface-surfing Christian counseling can’t touch it. It always catches the one fleeing. It overwhelms the one avoiding. Pain is in control with prisons, chains, and locks that require keys beyond our own resources and devices.
The pain-filled person is in a constant battle against trouble(Job 15:24) so he busies himself blaming others/being bitter/being unforgiving/secretly, or not so secretly, being mad at Father God/being defensive/being offensive/acting tough/being overly aggressive or overly passive/being boastful/craving significance/down on himself, etc. In this way pain wins - fear wins. The cycle of pain spins out of control in people no matter what demeanor they display as a mask for people to see. Pain is in charge. Pain is in control. Heb. 12:15
Next Installment: What destroys the power of pain?
Trouble, and the pain that comes from it, are a part of life (Job 4:8; Job 5; Job 14:1; Matt. 6:34; II Cor. 1:8). It is our reaction to trouble/pain that is the key.
Running from pain involves some of the following attributes/strategies (among others):
walls/filters/fear/mistrust/accepting lies of the enemy/unforgiveness/bitterness/blame/judgment/critical spirit/control/resistance to the Spirit’s leading/resistance to the Spirit’s comfort/unteachable/stubbornness/ignoring issues/avoidance/hiding/rebelliousness
Pain can’t be masked with popularity, position, prestige, power, degrees, or titles. It is unaffected by self-help books/courses and inner peace techniques (Prov.25:19).Typical worldly counseling or surface-surfing Christian counseling can’t touch it. It always catches the one fleeing. It overwhelms the one avoiding. Pain is in control with prisons, chains, and locks that require keys beyond our own resources and devices.
The pain-filled person is in a constant battle against trouble(Job 15:24) so he busies himself blaming others/being bitter/being unforgiving/secretly, or not so secretly, being mad at Father God/being defensive/being offensive/acting tough/being overly aggressive or overly passive/being boastful/craving significance/down on himself, etc. In this way pain wins - fear wins. The cycle of pain spins out of control in people no matter what demeanor they display as a mask for people to see. Pain is in charge. Pain is in control. Heb. 12:15
Next Installment: What destroys the power of pain?
