Pain

I was in the hospital when I accepted Jesus as my Savior. The next day I was operated on for 12 hours and it was a gruesome operation. During my car crash my right femur was snapped in two pieces like a pencil. The surgeons made a 12 inch incision about midway down my leg to access and position the two broken bones together. Next they made a six inch incision in my hip area and after drilling a hole through the top of the femur they drove a metal rod that was about eighteen inches in length all of the way down the center of my femur through the two broken bones from my hip to just above my knee. The rod would support my weight for the next two years in which I walked with the assistance of crutches.

When I awoke in the recovery room I was in excruciating pain. It was pulsating from my leg to my brain over and over and over again. I was so sick from the pain that I retched. I could not think; I could not talk. The pain was so bad all I could do was moan in agony.

It was at that moment that I cried out, “Oh God please save me!” Instantly I felt the presence of the Lord descend upon me like a warm blanket. I had been panicky scared like being in the midst of a hurricane, but suddenly felt as though I entered the calm of the eye of the storm. The hair stood on end on my neck as I could actually feel the presence of God in that recovery room. It was gentle, reassuring, and calming. I said through gritted teeth the verse that had been haunting me since reading the Bible, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”.

I wish I could say that Jesus miraculously took away my pain and healed me on the spot. He did not. What He did was gently assure me that I would not have to endure the pain all alone anymore and I knew His strenght would get me through it and even if I died I would be all right. I had been all alone for years enduring the pain of this life, but not anymore. Now the Lord was with me.

Just then I remembered a verse from the Bible I had just read two days earlier. It said that Jesus would be with me until the end of the earth and beyond that throughout all of eternity and that no unseen power principality or anything could ever take me away from Him.

I think that is how life is sometimes. We must endure some pain in this life, but we do not have to endure it alone. Jesus is right there with us every second of every minute of every hour forever and we must rely on His strenght to get us through it.

One day there will be no more pain, but for now, the presence of Jesus is sufficient. Until then, no worries…

Romans 8:39
Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.