Pain is a given in this life. It is liberally spread across the human race. It comes in many forms, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. It can be acute or chronic. It can have a wide range of intensity (from not much to the worst pain ever experienced).
I was thinking about pain at this moment because I had a rough day yesterday dealing with it. At one point, I tried to remember the last time I was truly pain free. All I could remember was that it was “a while ago.”
There are two things I know about pain. I know its origin, and I know its end.
Pain originated in the Garden of Eden. When Eve bit down on the lie of the enemy and Adam followed, sin entered. And with sin, pain. And with sin, death.
In Genesis 3, God told Adam and Eve about the consequences of their sin. Eve and all who would come after her, would experience pain in childbirth, while Adam and all who came after him would have “painful labor” in providing what was needed to survive.
But as we can pinpoint pain’s origin, we also have the promise of pain’s end. It comes when Jesus returns and this world becomes His.
“[God] will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will no longer exist; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer, because the previous things have passed away.” [Revelation 21:4 HCSB]
I may have days of pain here … but oh glory! I won’t have a single moment of pain there. Even so, come quickly LORD Jesus!
