Pain!
Our mortal bodies and minds feel it!!
It's something that is not pleasant!
It is something that God uses to mold you to His will.
It builds our faith!
During your times of crisis, people will wonder what you have that they don't and it will lead to an opportunity to share the hope we have in Christ.
It allows us to minister to others!
It builds our trust in God who see all things!
Pain brings you closer to God.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; - Job 42:5
We can comfort others.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. - 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Pain shows you just what is important.
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. - Isaiah 48:10
You grow in Grace.
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. - James 1:2-4
All manner of suffering will make you more like Jesus.
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. - Romans 8:28-29
Thanks Mary for the verse references!
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