If You Can Read This...

[JKnightandKARR]

My shower this morning helped some, but by the end of our Deacon's meeting, after service, I was in real bad pain again. I should have had Marilyn put some Lidocaine patches on my back before we left this morning. Feeling a bit better now, but I turned off the alarms for tomorrow so that we can (hopefully) sleep in.

Pain sucks...

[granz]

My shower this morning helped some, but by the end of our Deacon's meeting, after service, I was in real bad pain again. I should have had Marilyn put some Lidocaine patches on my back before we left this morning. Feeling a bit better now, but I turned off the alarms for tomorrow so that we can (hopefully) sleep in.

Pain sucks...

Truly.

Some people don't realize that we were meant to be totally without any pain at all. Pain came from our sin, our decision that we know better than God. If you ask most people who sinned first, they will respond that Eve did by eating from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, in the book of Romans, her husband, Adam, was the first to sin (Romans chapter 5 verses 12 & 13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%205&version=NIV.) Adam's sin was in neglecting to take care of (protect) his wife. In the letter that St. Paul wrote to the Church in Ephesus (Ephesians chapter 5 verse 25 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=eph%205&version=NIV,) us men are commanded to love our wives (which includes protecting) our wives.

Because of Adam's sin, we have all inherited (genetically) a sin nature. This includes pain, and unfortunately death. We all have earned death, and hell. But, like that little sign that I had at our meetup, last fall, the good news is that Jesus paid the price for our sin, and because of that we can serve God, and get to Heaven where there will be no more pain. We just have to believe that the price has already been paid by Jesus.