It's Just a Pain

Have you ever had a nagging pain and thought "Wonder what caused that?"  or "Should I go get it checked out?"  Well for about the last few months, I periodically had a sharp pain that would come and then go in the center of my chest.  No it did not feel like a heart attack and it would go away as quickly as it came when I would just lightly rub the center of my chest. 

So at my quarterly doctor's visit, I mentioned it to the doctor and so he had tests run.  It seems that my sternum is cracked.  Humm. . . how did that happen?  I had not lifted too much that I know of.  Yet, I have so much going on at the office and at home which need me to get up and down on the tractor, etc that I just don't have time for pain. 

Yet when I move too quickly or pick up something, I get the reminder that this part of my body is in the healing process.  Therefore this morning after taking pain and inflammation medication, I am reminded of the pain that Paul the apostle went through on a daily basis and I have no room to complain.

This past weekend was our Miracle Sunday and we are seeing God work miracles into lives.  Just know that Satan is hard at work trying to stop God from performing Miracles in our lives.  ON the biggest weekend of the year at our church, the electric went off, someone coming to pray was in an accident, the pastor got sick from Saturday through Monday (although you could not tell by his passionate celebration, praise, and prayers) and so many other things that I know was a Satan distraction all weekend long. 

Stop a minute and read the beginning of the Book of Job (Chapter 1 & 2).  See what God allows Satan to do in testing faithfulness.  In their conversation Satan does things to the body and family of Job that we would call real pain.  Most of us would just figure out a way to blame God. Yet Job's faithfulness did not fail.

The moral to this story is to recognize that it is just pain we experience and it can be a way for us to get distracted from the power that the Lord offers each one of us each day!

As for me I try to forget the pain with other distractions and praise the giver of life.  There's a Miracle out there just waiting to happen in your life!  What Miracle are you waiting on?  Be prepared for Satan's distractions.  Know that it's just a pain.