Rick Warren says that pain energizes and arouses us from spiritual lethargy.
There used to be times I thought that pain was punishment...but friends, it's not.
They are wake-up calls from God, not because He caused them (although He has the power and divinity to).
They are arrows pointing us back to Him, not because He is mad at us, but because He so madly, recklessly and deeply loves us and wants time with us.
May the pain you and I may be facing today bring us to grow in intimacy with the One who created and sustains us, not draw us further away.
He is the ultimate Healer.
