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Should A Christian Experience Pain? by mumumugu(m): 10:32pm On Feb 15, 2020
Pain is a symptom. It is a teacher. It is a way of showing you what matters, what’s wrong, what needs to change, and what needs to go.
Pain arrives when we need to learn a lesson.
Pain arrives as a warning, as a signal, as a means of communicating when our path must change course.
Pain lingers when we don’t know how to let it go, when we carry it from one experience to the next, projecting all of our worst fears onto whatever happens to be in front of us at the moment.
Though we cannot always control when pain shows up, we can always ask what purpose its presence is supposed to serve. We can always ask what it is intended to show us about our lives.
When painful things happen, it is normal and healthy to feel hurt. What’s not normal or healthy is to stay stuck there because we never learned how to process, how to heal, and how to move forward.
Let’s be clear about something: you are meant to heal what hurts you. You are not supposed to be in pain forever.
You are, instead, meant to metabolize it. You are meant to cry when life is sad, and mourn when you have been disappointed. You are supposed to feel pain, not overthink it. Then you are supposed to learn from it. You are supposed to let it show you what matters. You are supposed to let it guide you to a path of more belonging, more purpose, and more fulfillment.
Pain does not arrive to punish you.
It arrives to remind you that you do not deserve to be punished forever.
It arrives to remind you that a greater life is possible, if you have the courage to reach for it.
It arrives to show us the space between where we are and where we are meant to be, and it lingers when we fail to bridge that gap.
Your pain is not here to hurt you.
It is here to make you free.

Brianna west
Re: Should A Christian Experience Pain? by mumumugu(m): 10:35pm On Feb 15, 2020
When you’re intellectualizing how you feel, you’re avoiding the real and hard work of actually metabolizing how you feel. It’s not about knowing where the pain came from. It’s letting yourself process it so you can finally move on.
Almost everyone knows how to think about their feelings, but almost nobody knows how to release their feelings.
We release when we cry.
We release when we take a notebook and write down our most honest, brutal, and heartbreaking thoughts.
We release when we exercise, when we talk to a trusted friend, when we go to therapy.
We release when we allow our feelings to materialize in some way. Until we do this, they remain on a feedback loop that is almost impossible to break.
Until we find a way to release our emotions — and the method will be different for everyone — they will quietly control our lives. The past will remain unresolved, closure won’t be found, and we’ll feel lost, though we are taking the right steps to be found.
Once we have released our emotions, we can then start to do the real work of analyzing the lessons that need to be learned.
Instead of sitting and thinking about how terrible we feel, how unfair life has been, how unfortunately the years have treated us, we can turn our attention toward what we should actually be thinking about, which is what those times have taught us.
Maybe we know what not to do in the future.
Maybe we learned a crucial lesson about who to trust.
Maybe we gained some life-changing self-awareness that will forever alter the way we approach our relationships.
Maybe we have learned what doesn’t work, so we can be one step closer to what does.
Maybe we figured out something about who we are, something we didn’t know before.
In every one of life’s challenges exists something of an equal or greater benefit to us, but we must be willing to unravel our experiences, release our feelings, and move on different — and better — than we ever have been before.
Re: Should A Christian Experience Pain? by mumumugu(m): 10:40pm On Feb 15, 2020
discomfort

What you want is to let yourself feel sad when you are sad. What you want is to grieve. What you want is to pity, mourn, and rage. And when you are not given the ample time and space to do it in a healthy way, you find other outlets, other apertures, through which you can project everything that’s suppressed.
What you want is to rise to the occasion.
What you want is to burn through your limitations, to be challenged and overcome.
What you want is to look your demons in the eye and dissolve them of their power.
What you want is to get angry and let that anger transform your life. What you want is to feel sad and let that sadness show you what matters. What you want is to feel anxious and let that anxiety show you where healing is required.
You don’t want a complacent life, no matter how much you convince yourself you do — and you know this because even when you have it, you are still dissatisfied.
To reach for the life you want, you have to fall in love with being uncomfortable. You have to get addicted to it. You have to start to prefer the high of breaking through your limitations to the dull comfort of staying safe. You have to let the fear rush through you and open you, more deeply than ever before. You have to let everything that’s holding you back become the foundation, the ground zero, upon which you rebuild the rest of your life.
Your life is ultimately going to be the product of what you tolerate.
It is going to be the sum of what you’re comfortable with.
So you have to get uncomfortable. You have to defy your impulses, however briefly, and you have to stretch. You have to learn to keep walking to broader horizons, that there is no point at which we simply “arrive,” because that is not what we were designed to do.
We were built to grow. We are here to evolve.
You know this, because you feel it.
Every tether you have to your discomfort is what’s holding you back, and every ounce of that unhappiness is showing you what you’re destined to transform.
So fall in love with the alchemy. Learn to metabolize discomfort, and use it to your advantage, instead of letting it hold you stuck and steady, exactly where you have always been.
Re: Should A Christian Experience Pain? by malvisguy212: 7:19am On Feb 16, 2020
If everything in this life was fair, good and happy, what need would there be to seek a better life? Why would
we seek a Deliverer, if there was nothing to be delivered from? Suffering is not something that ought to turn people away from God, but draw them to Him. Pain is part of growing up. It's how we learn.
Re: Should A Christian Experience Pain? by AntiChristian: 7:29am On Feb 16, 2020
Everyone created in to this world will feel pain.

Even Jesus wept and felt hunger!
As rich as Dangote he also have his pains!

So humans will feel pain at some point in life!
Re: Should A Christian Experience Pain? by sulasa07(m): 11:33am On Feb 16, 2020
mumumugu:
Pain is a symptom. It is a teacher. It is a way of showing you what matters, what’s wrong, what needs to change, and what needs to go.
Pain arrives when we need to learn a lesson.
Pain arrives as a warning, as a signal, as a means of communicating when our path must change course.
Pain lingers when we don’t know how to let it go, when we carry it from one experience to the next, projecting all of our worst fears onto whatever happens to be in front of us at the moment.
Though we cannot always control when pain shows up, we can always ask what purpose its presence is supposed to serve. We can always ask what it is intended to show us about our lives.
When painful things happen, it is normal and healthy to feel hurt. What’s not normal or healthy is to stay stuck there because we never learned how to process, how to heal, and how to move forward.
Let’s be clear about something: you are meant to heal what hurts you. You are not supposed to be in pain forever.
You are, instead, meant to metabolize it. You are meant to cry when life is sad, and mourn when you have been disappointed. You are supposed to feel pain, not overthink it. Then you are supposed to learn from it. You are supposed to let it show you what matters. You are supposed to let it guide you to a path of more belonging, more purpose, and more fulfillment.
Pain does not arrive to punish you.
It arrives to remind you that you do not deserve to be punished forever.
It arrives to remind you that a greater life is possible, if you have the courage to reach for it.
It arrives to show us the space between where we are and where we are meant to be, and it lingers when we fail to bridge that gap.
Your pain is not here to hurt you.
It is here to make you free.

Brianna west
No don't feel pain,just be like Superman or homelander

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