Pain & Pressure Please

Pain & Pressure Please 

 Mentally, checking out leads to dangerous  relationships. Often, times we cling to bad people in times of utter sorrow. 

 We find this truth to be laid out with Samson, Saul, even King David. We often see the circumstances as a crying out of pain. When we do not recognise pain, loneliness, sorrow, or longing in our souls, we become soul tied to evil, and there is no escaping it. 

 We far too often stuff our pain, giving it no air, and thus it steals the air from our souls. A thirteen year-old Anne Frank knew the importance of airing out pain. This is how Kitty was written. Her brilliant work has challenged almost three generations of people to look at their pain head on. This ferociousness of the inner microscope she held over heart, saved her from dismay, helped her cling to the good, and gave her words that adults cannot even be brave enough to say aloud let alone write.  

 What are we clinging to? Facebook friends that really care if we live or die, spouses  that will cheat, lie, and betray, children, who will grow up and leave us to abandon us to their own dreams? We cling to the external like mice clinging to warm bricks not, knowing that fire will eventually will burn. Yet, we let go so quickly of faithfulness, hope, faith , and a God who knows us by name simply because the pain screams louder. In turn we listen to the screams and abandon all hope, our faith, for mere frivolity that only lasts for minutes We huddle towards evil people because we cannot sit with the pain for even a half of breath. 

 God loves pain. Through pain life and love are brilliantly shown. If we cannot force it out of ourselves we really are useless. What if Anne Frank kept all of her pain in? Would we really know what it was like to be Jewish in hiding during WWII? Probably not. 

 God, cannot do anything with our pain, until we give it to Him. We cannot hold unto the good if we keep exchanging the pain for simple external things. We turn to Facebook to ignore the ones we love, because it is too painful to speak up. We coddle the pain pushing love further beyond our reach. We cling to drugs because it eases that pain for just those moments forgetting; that the drugs pull towards unforgettable choices. We cling to work because we feel useful; making our hearts like cinder blocks not being able to feel anything. 

 Saul, chose a medium over God. King David chose adultery  because war was too hard too bare, and neglected his duty and decided to chase a one night stand.  Samson,  could not bare the pain of solitude and took an evil wife of his enemies because he could not witness his sheets to be empty. 

  What is your pain causing you? What is your pain preventing you from doing? Are you able to write, to speak, to open yourself to have courage, to live beautifully and boldly? No matter what it may cost you? 

 Death for most is a long way off, we should not be awaiting that moment of desperate solitude it should be only for God appearing and taking us home. Daily we should be apologising, daily we should be saying  I love you’s.  In a month we should be acknowledging the pain and grief that is there that needs to be broken away from the catalyst of our soul.   Are you brave enough to bring your pain into light? Most pain is a molehill compared to the Love of God that is awaiting you. Don’t miss your calling over pain. Let your pain crumble you to find your calling. 

 Anne Frank wanted to be famous. Her open, raw, and gut wrenching writing led her to that destiny at only fifteen. She was brave to let the whole world see her pain. What does the world need from your pain? God has a plan for it. No child on earth suffers without God using it for His glory.