The thing about pain.

Something I wrote a little while back, thought it was good and that I would share with you guys!


Who am I to say that your pain is any less than mine?  I have struggled with judging people on the pain I see and not the pain that I cannot feel myself.  How can I say that your pain is less important than the man who is on the side of the road?  Has that man experienced your pain? No.  Have you experienced his pain? No.  We cannot judge peoples pain because we can never experience it on the same level, only one being in the existence of time itself can say "I know exactly what you are going through" He is the one who took that shame.  He is the only one who is just, The only one who you should be dependent on.  Now it has been said that God is evil because he causes pain, now why would a God who "Causes" pain allow himself to experience this pain to the fullest?  Why would he stoop to the level of man?  If he was evil wouldn't he just let us suffer?  In fact if he was "TRULY" evil he would not even allow us to know pain, because to know pain we must know happiness, now is this something an "Evil" god would allow?  No... Evil exists because God is GOOD!  It is like a light that shines into the dark, without the light you would not know dark.  Do we dwell in the dark or do we dwell in the light?  Now I can't say that we will not experience pain once we are Christians, just because you have accepted Him doesn't mean you are automatically taken out of the realm of the world and all its evilness, no in fact we are called to the world, as soon as we deny pain we deny grace,  life is full of pain, but growth comes out of pain, your mother had to endure pain to have you, would she give you up now to never have had to experience that pain?  By no means!  In order to give life she had to endure pain,  but after the pain we get life.  Christ endured the pain of being ripped from himself, but he did it to give life to the world, we as Christians cannot have an exit plan when it comes to the world, because as the great John Stonestreet once said "God did not save us from the world, He saved us TOO the world."  So when you see someone hurting, don't say "There's a child who is in far greater pain then you so suck it up."  We don't know their pain, how dare you judge them when you yourself have not experienced this pain.  Pain is a battle we all must deal with on our own level, but we can rest assured that Christ has experienced this pain, Also He carries this with him, the scares on his hands, the stripes on his back and the crown around his head.  So if you are in pain today, Christ is holding his bruised and beaten hand out to you, he is suffering with you.  You are not alone, Christ was the only one alone... He paid it, He lived with the pain.  That is why God is not evil.

But who am I to say this... I am only 21.

-Todd LaBerge