When the pain prepare us for a mission?

Hi.


There are moments in our lives in which faith is broken by pain. In those moments in which faith is broken by doubt, our pain becomes acute because we have lost sight of the face of our God and we ask: Why He has abandoned us? In my daily life there have been times in which I have had to discipline my children for wrong behavior and certainly it has hurt me more than them, but when I have done it is because I want them to learn a lesson that will be useful in the future. Days ago I had a situation with my daughter. I had warned her : "if you continue to do this in school you will have consequences" and let her know the consequences she would have. The next day she repeated the behavior and I told her she had two paths to choose from and she chose the wrong one, "now you will have the consequence that I warned you would have if you made that choice", I told her. She began to cry and she told me "you do not love me", while I was punishing her  Those words hurt me a lot because  what I love  the most in this earth are my children and my husband. I went to my office and bitterly cry, a moment that produced me a big headache and a seizure. I did not end the punishment, although I was feeling sad, I let her receive the consequence of her acts.


That reminded me that when one uf us suffers, our God suffers more than us, and if He allows us to go through that pain it is because He is trying to teach us something, or He is trying to turn one of our weaknesses into a strength. The Bible tells us in one of the parables of Jesus that if we know how to give good gifts to our children, the more your father in heaven will give good gifts to those who ask him. The outcome of the punishment of my daughter was that the following day she was selected the girl with the best behavior in the classroom, exactly what his mother was looking for.


Almost all Bible characters who had important missions went through very difficult moments before receiving the mission. Those moments prepared them for when God entrusted them with the mission they had the tools to fulfill it. One of those characters was Jose, who was sold by his brothers, and his first years in Egypt were very difficult, where he went to prison being innocent . But he kept his faith in God and was rewarded and chosen for a great mission.


Moses is another example, he lost everything and was expelled from the palace of Pharaoh and his conforts. He went from having everything to a humble life until he was prepared to fulfill the mission of liberating the people of Israel.


Esther was a young orphan who had many needs before being chosen to be the wife of the king and she was given the mission of saving her people.


The question that I ask is if they had not gone through those needs would they have valued the privilege that God gave them of accomplishing a mission?. Would they have appreciated what they had at that time? or would they have thought that they got if for their own merits?. Certainly few are those who value abundance if they have not experienced the poverty, or those who value health if they have not lived the disease. Also those who value life if they have not gone through the risk of losing it, or those who value the family if they have not lived the loneliness or the betrayal. There was a moment of my life that I had all: money, friends, work, love, health, everything a human could dream of, but I did not knew the value of those things. I thought I could achieve everything I wanted until I experienced a moment of pain and lost my health, work and went through economic need. After years of struggle God gave me the opportunity to get up and recover what was lost, but certainly at this point in my life I do not look at things as I did before. I no longer see the world the same way and I even value  the song of birds because I already went through the pain, the illness, the need and the betrayal of many. God gave everything back to me, with the exception of my health, which remind me of the story of Paul, who did not recover his sight completely so that he would never forget his total and absolute dependence on God. I think that mark has remained in me with the purpose of helping others to understand that we can succeed even with the disease if we put our total and absolute trust in God.


Another purpose the disease has had in my life is to remind me that everything I have I owe it to God and that with God everything and without Him nothing. So I will be with the disease until He says so or maybe for the rest of my life if it is necessary for my salvation. Who am I to question him? I simply thank Him because even in sickness He has let me live a normal life and He has blessed me like never before.


Today I thank God for the opportunity to live and tell you that if you are going through a difficult time in life, you should give it to God so that He will transform it into a great blessing. You should will see how you will value more each moment of your life.


 Psalms 66(20) reads: "Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me."