We meet obstacles every day and each of us has our way of dealing with them. A person who gives in to despair looks for salvation, but no psychologist can help him as much as religion. Many of us experience pain, but few know that we can manage it and turn it into something beautiful. Every fall we have, every sense of despair gives us some lessons so that we can become better than we are today.
The strongest pain is the one we feel inside when our soul hurts. No physical pain can come close to it. Tyler’s story is one of the best examples of how a person can withstand his physical pain just by obtaining spiritual enlightenment. He was shot and had to start learning how to walk again, but still, he felt happy. “I am happy because I know Jesus is here.” He said, The pain he felt was indescribable, imagine not being able to walk, yet your spirit still stands strong. Not everyone has the power to eliminate their fear and feel happiness. God helped him to overcome the obstacle and showed him the way to happiness through the pain. God held him tight and didn’t let his spirit break.
Our world is full of pain, but it’s not an accident. Pain makes us stronger, only through pain can we connect with God and sense his presence. That’s what Christianity teaches us, that’s what God wants us to understand. As steel is forged through fire, so are our souls forged from the pain. God helps us to obtain strong spirit, he gives us obstacles and we should transform the pain into something more beautiful – hope. And what is God, if not hope and love?
God loves us the way we are because he is always with us. Whenever Tyler’s friends asked him why he felt happy, God gave him the strength to smile and don’t give in to despair. God lit the candle of hope in his soul, which helped him chase away the darkness and embrace the light. Little light from the candle turned into a fire that lit up Tyler’s soul today. That’s why he has the strength to guide others through darkness and show them the way to light, that is God.
Pain is a blessing, because a person who felt pain, felt Jesus as well. Jesus always helps people who let him into their hearts. A person who knows pain, knows eternity, finds his soul, forges it into something strong and beautiful and earns a place in eternal heaven. We should all remember that in our darkest times, no one can help us as much as God, because he lives in our hearts and lights the candle to guide our souls through the darkness. That little candle is hope and that’s the reason we never feel abandoned, even in our worst times.
