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Dr. Brand said, “One of the great things about pain is that it so often brings us back to God.” Why is pain sometimes necessary in your life for that spiritual return to occur?
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When everything in my life is going well, I tend to lose sight of God and my need for him. I depend on myself and my own resources. Pain points me back to His presence and my need for dependence on Him.
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I think just like the Israelites took God for granted, when we are continually blessed we can fall into being like them. Unfortunately, it often requires us to get to a ditch in life to really turn back to God.
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Sometimes we need to be woken back up. We get comfortable when things are going well. When we experience the pain, it reminds us that God is present and we need Him.
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I think without pain, we would just continue on and feel like we don’t need to rely on God, or in the case of sin, not correct our behavior.
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I believe sometime pain has to brought in our lives to open our eyes that we are not alone and do not have control over everything. It opens us back up to see that there is a higher power in life and often helps us to regain our relationship with God to ease that pain knowing that our God is with us.
