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“NEVER WASTE YOUR PAIN”

A.
Everybody experiences PAINS! Pains in different degrees! As a matter of
fact, we can’t get very far on the road of life without encountering them.
Bagama’t nararanasan ng bawat Kristiyano ang mga rumaragasang blessings ng Dios sa ating araw-araw
na buhay, totoong ang buhay ay hindi magiging ganap kung walang difficulties, losses, challenges, at
struggles. It’s easy to get discouraged, bitter, and think, “Lord, why is this happening to me?” Lord, bakit
ako pa? Why in this situation? Why now?

The Bible reminds us that God comforts us in our troubles, not necessarily from our troubles. ( 2
Corinthians 1:4). Ang mga pains ng buhay ay method o kaparaanan ng Dios upang hubugin ang ating
pagkatao. In some cases, God may use the worsy of our circumstances to accomplish the best of our
results for our own good.

Isa po sa pinakamagandang principle na natutuhanan ko lately sa pagkawala ng aking asawa ay: Don’t
put a question mark where God has already put a period. Huwag mo ng lagyan pa ng tanong ang
nilagyan na ng tuldok ng Dios sapagkat ang kaparaanan ng Dios ay hindi natin kayang hadlangan.

B. The real Picture

Maraming pangyayari ang hindi natin naiintindihan or nauunawaan; one reason is, we can’t see the big
picture for our lives yet. Katulad po ng isang PUZZLE, on the front of the box there’s the picture; makikita
natin ang itsura ng mabubuo nating puzzle. However, if you were to take one piece and isolate it, you
would think, “look at this funny-looking piece; it’s a mistake, it’s not going to fit anywhere. it’s an odd
shape, there’s nothing beautiful about it.” but the fact is, that piece has a perfect place; it’s already been
fitted, planned, designed. When the other pieces come together, it will fit in. The reason you can’t see it
now is because they all are not in place yet.

In the same way, sometimes we look at pieces in our lives that don’t make sense to us: “Nagkahiwalay
kami, ng break up kami, Namatay ang asawa ko, nalugi ang negosyo ko, sinaktan ako ng husto, I’m going
through cancer, maaring ang lahat ng ito ay hindi parte ng plano ng Dios.” but you have to trust that even
in the painful times, the times you’re hurting, lonely, taking the treatment, on the surface that piece
doesn’t make sense, but God doesn’t make any mistakes; He’s already designed your life, laid out all the
pieces down to the smallest details. God never said that we would understand everything that happens
along the way. He didn’t promise that we’d never have any heartache, pain, disappointment, loss,
setbacks, but He did promise that it would all work out for our good. That piece that’s painful, doesn’t
look like it makes any sense, when everything comes together, it will fit perfectly into place.

The key o ang susi ay ano ang ginagawa natin sa mga oras ng kapighatian at kabiguan, what we do in our
times of pain. Pain will change us: heartache, loss, disappointments, they don’t leave us the same. How
the pain changes you is up to you; you can come out bitter, or you can come out better. You can come
out with na mabigat ang dibdib , blaming God, or you can come out stronger, with a greater
confidence in God. You can come out defeated, giving up on your dreams, or you can come out with a
new passion, a new fire, excited about the new opportunities in front of you.

My challenge is, don’t just go through it, grow through it. Huwag mo lang palampasin ang pain,Huwag
mong hahayaan na kainin ka ng pain, na ibaon ka sa galit, sa poot, sa pagdududa, pagtatanong, sa
questioning na bakit nangyari? If you allow that to happen, you will be stucked in that situation, you
Lumago ka at yumabong ka out of that pain.There are lessons in life that can only be learned through
tough times, you learn love out of unlovely situations, you learn joy in grief situations, you learn peace in
trouble. Yes mahirap po sya but That difficulty is an opportunity to get stronger, to develop character, to
gain new confidence.

NEVER WASTE YOUR PAIN!


That pain is not there to stop you, it’s there to prepare you, to increase you, to develop you. The
scripture talks about how God is in control, not just of our lives, but He’s in control of our enemies. Satan
had to ask God for permission to test Job. The enemy may turn on the fire, but the good news is, God
has his hand on the thermostat. God controls how much heat, how much pain, how much adversity; He
knows what we can handle. If it was going to harm us rather than help us, God would have turned back
the intensity.

In those tough times, when you’re uncomfortable, going through a loss, dealing with an illness, you
could easily let it overwhelm you; it’s helpful to remind yourself, “I may be in this fire, but I know who
controls the temperature. The God who breathed life into me, the God Who is for me and not against
me, the God Who crowned me with favor, the God Who takes pleasure in prospering me, He’s in
complete control. He’s not going to let it get too hot, He’s not going to let it defeat me. I may not like it,
but I’m not a whiner, I’m a warrior. I know I can handle this.” you have that attitude, and you’ll come out
stronger, increased, promoted, better than you were before.

We’ve all heard the saying, “no pain, no gain”; if everything was always easy, we wouldn’t be prepared
for our destiny.. God knows what you need, when you need it. every struggle is making you stronger,
every difficulty is growing you up, every painful time, even though you don’t like it, it’s developing
something in you that can only be developed in the tough times. don’t complain about the pain;
without the pain, we couldn’t reach the fullness of our destinies

What is the gain from our pain?

1. I CAN USE MY PAIN TO DRAW CLOSER TO GOD.


Kapag hindi maganda ang nangyayari sa ating buhay, you have 2 choices: Either you RUN TO GOD
or YOU RUN AWAY FROM GOD.
By instinct, tumatakbo tayo sa Dios kapag may biglaang nangyari “ Oh my GOD!”

Exactly 26 days ago ng mawala ang aking husband, alam ko po that I will be a “changed person”-
iba na sapagkat sa ganito kahirap na sitwasyon, it forced me to have a deeper relationship with
God na hindi ko pa nararanasan sa aking buhay. It changed me because kung dati, nag quiet time
at nagdedevotion ng 30 mins or 1 hour, ngayon po, hindi ko na kayang bilangin kung ilang oras na
ako ay bumababad sa presensya ng Dios. I spent hours praying, meditating, listening, reading the
Bible, reading books, articles. Why? Because I wanted my pain to draw closer and nearer to GOD.

Paano natin ito magagawa sa panahon ng pighati? How do you draw close to GOD in your pain?

In shock, you express your sorrow to GOD.In sorrow, you cry out in your sorrow to GOD. In
struggle, you argue with God. In surrender, you let go and you trust God.You can worship at
every stages of your pain.

2 CORINTHIANS 1
“ WE WERE CRUSHED AND OVERWHELMED… AND SAW HOW POWERLESS WE WERE TO HELP
OURSELVES;BUT THAT WAS GOOD, FOR THEN WE PUT EVERYTHING INTO THE HANDS OF GOD,
WHO ALONE COULD SAVE US.. AND HE DID HELP US!”

“That was good?” Why? Because it drew us closer to God rather than ran away from God.

2. I CAN USE MY PAIN TO DRAW CLOSER TO OTHERS.


Galatians 6:2 “ By helping each other with your troubles, you truly obey the law of Christ.”

2 Corinthians 1:4 (ERV)


4 He comforts us every time we have trouble so that when others have trouble, we can comfort
them with the same comfort God gives us.

Have a new perspective; the reason God allowed it is because He can trust you. He knows He
can count on you to take the same the same love, healing, encouragement, and share it with
others. Maybe you’ve been through something you don’t understand: a sickness, abuse,
infertility, raising a difficult child, life hasn’t turned out the way you’d hoped, it’s painful. it’s easy
to take on a victim mentality; “if God is good, why did this happen to me? why did these people
mistreat me growing up? why’d I have this bad break?”

It’s because God knows he can trust you. The forces of darkness tried to take you out, but God had His
hand on the thermostat. He said, “not so fast, that’s my son, that’s my daughter; I’ve got an assignment
for them to fulfill.” just like God said to Satan about Job:

Job 1:12 (NLT)

12 “All right, you may test him,” the Lord said to Satan. “Do whatever you want with everything he
possesses, but don’t harm him physically.”

“he’s not going to quit serving me, I know what Job is made of.” God is saying the same thing about you;
“it may be painful, but I know what they’re made of. it may be difficult, it may not be fair, but I’m not
only going to bring them out, I’m going to bring them out better, and I’m going to use them to help other
people who are struggling in the same areas.” God can trust you;
we’ve all been through things that are uncomfortable, we didn’t like it, but God made a way when we
didn’t see a way. if it wasn’t for His healing, favor, goodness, mercy, we wouldn’t be here. God’s counting
on us to let our light shine. what you’ve been through can help somebody else get through it. be on the
lookout for somebody you can encourage; don’t waste your pain. when you’ve been through something,
in one sense you’ve been given a gift; you are uniquely qualified to help others struggling in that same
situation. don’t sit around feeling sorry for yourself; go out and lift somebody else up. everything
happens to us for a reason; nothing is a coincidence. some things are to help us grow, mature, come up
higher. then there are times God will allow us to go through a difficult season, so later on we can be
instrumental in helping somebody else overcome.

can God trust you with the pain? can God trust you to be uncomfortable? will you get negative, bitter,
“God, why is this happening to me?”

I say this respectfully; it’s not all about you. what if G

the reason the fire is so hot is because God has something amazing in your future; He’s getting you
prepared for the next level of your destiny. God doesn’t just randomly say, “let Me give them some pain
to make their life miserable,” “let Me hit her with a sickness,” “let Me hit him with some marriage
problems”; there is a purpose for the pain. we may not always understand it, “why did I get sick, lose my
loved one, why did my marriage not make it?” I can’t answer that, but I can tell you, if God allowed it,
He knows how to bring good out of it. this is what faith is all about; “God, I don’t like the pain, but I
trust You. I believe You’re in control. I’m not going to just go through it, I’m going to grow through it. I’m
going to keep a good attitude, I’m going to count it all joy, knowing that this pain is leading to my gain.”

sometimes, we bring pain on ourselves, make poor choices, get in a relationship we know is not good,
get over our head in our spending; now it’s painful, we’re having to deal with the consequences. God is
full of mercy; He’ll always give us the grace to get out of it, but the way to not waste your pain is you
have to learn the lesson. be big enough to look back and say, “here’s where I missed it; I ignored the
warnings, I got involved in something that I shouldn’t have, I got out of God’s timing, got in a hurry. I’m
not going to do that anymore.” there’s a lesson in the pain; don’t be hardheaded and have to keep going
through the same pain again and again. we talk a lot about letting go of the past, letting go of the
mistakes, failures, divorce, and yes, that’s true, but another way to say it is, “remember the lesson,
remember what you learned in the experience, and then let go of the negative event.”

but if you go through a painful time and you don’t come out with what you were supposed to learn,
you’re doing yourself a disservice. don’t keep repeating the same mistakes again and again. are you
bringing pain on yourself? are you struggling in a relationship, not fulfilled, because you keep saying
everything you feel like saying? here’s a newsflash; the pain will stop if you zip it up. don’t just go
through it, grow through it. other times, we experience pain that has nothing to do with our choices; it
wasn’t our fault, we were doing the right thing and the wrong thing happened. the scripture says:

Matthew 5:45 (GW)


45 … He lets rain fall on them whether they are just or unjust.

you can be the just, honoring God, being your best, helping others, and it rains in your life. there are
forces of darkness trying to keep you from your destiny. God could’ve stopped it, but He didn’t. even
though it’s painful now, if you’ll stay in faith, that will lead you toward your destiny. God knows how to
take your mess and turn it into your message, take what was meant for harm and use it to your
advantage. there are times God will allow us to go through a season of difficulty so He can birth
something new on the inside. Paul said in Corinthians:

I say this respectfully; it’s not all about you. what if God allowed it so three years from now you could if
you’ll stay in faith, eventually the pain will pass; you’ll give birth to new strengths, new talents, new
ministry, new charity, new friendships, a new level. the pain is for a purpose; a change is taking place.
when you’re in a difficult time, don’t focus on the pain, focus on the fact that a new level is coming. the
scripture says:

Hebrews 12:2 (NIV)

2 … For the joy set before him he endured the cross

if you only focus on where you are, on the pain, you’ll get negative. have a new perspective, the right
perspective; “God, I don’t like this situation, but I know this pain is not here to stop me, it’s here to
promote me. it’s a sign I’m about to give birth to something new.” when it’s painful, don’t get
discouraged, get ready; you’re about to give birth. that discomfort you’re feeling, it’s not just a random
pain, those are birth pains. there’s a blessing in that pain, there’s a gift in that pain, there’s a ministry in
the pain, there’s a new level in that pain. don’t waste it; look for opportunities where you can encourage
somebody else. can God trust you with that pain? will you get negative, bitter, or will you say, “God, I
don’t understand it, but I know there’s a purpose for this pain”? remember, God has His hand on the
thermostat; if it was too much, He would have cut back the heat. don’t just go through it, grow through
it. if you’ll do this, your pain is about to be turned into your gain: you’re going to come out stronger,
increased, promoted, new levels. that pain is going to birth you into the fullness of your destiny.

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