We suffer all through our life with some kind of pain. When I was in my teens sometime Mom told me, to offer my pain up to God, to our Lord Jesus Christ. I asked myself how and why? When I was 12 years old I had a rash all over my body. Every muscle on my right side was moving, even my tongue was spastic and sore. I could not even walk.
I am a man with Cerebral Palsy and I fell a lot. Since I was 12, when I would sit down, I needed to put my right hand under my right leg to control the spastic in my right arm or my arm would become very sore. Sometime my tongue would get so spastic and sore. It would hurt like I bite my tongue over and over. I would chew on a face cloth so my tongue stopped moving around and the pain of my tongue would let up.
Over the years I learned to deal with my pain. I fell on my knees and my elbows a lot in high school. Sometime my knees looked like a big ball and my elbow looked like a golf ball was sitting on top of the elbow. But I kept on walking and hoped I wouldn’t fall down again.
When I was in my early 20’s I went to a healing service at St Joseph in Grande Prairie. They prayed over my knees. After a week I thought, hey the pain in my knees was gone. So I thank God.
Through my life I have some pain every day. I try to offer my pain and my struggles up to God. By saying a prayer I ask my Lord Jesus to heal me but if God want me to suffer that is ok because I know I am doing God’s will. God doesn’t want to see people suffering.
Matthew 26, verse 39. (Jesus) ”He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, ‘My Father’ if it possible let this cup pass from me, yet, not as I will, but as you will.” Jesus had suffered and had died on the cross for our sins.
We need to take up our daily cross and follow Jesus. Our daily cross is the struggles and the suffering and the pain we have during the day. I am not saying don’t see a doctor or don’t take pills to kill your pain.
I believe God answer our prayers by giving us good doctors. Sometimes God help us in a way we don’t realize. That is why I thank God every night.
God give me the grace to accept my daily cross.
So when you are suffering count your blessings and offer it up to our Lord Jesus.