"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God." - (2 Cor 1:3-4)
God Uses Our Pain to Bring Hope to Others
Paul understood this truth when he wrote that God comforts us so that we may comfort others. Comfort is never meant to be hoarded — it is meant to be shared. The trials you have survived become the very tools God uses to strengthen others.
If you've ever walked through grief, you understand how to walk gently beside someone in loss. If you've ever been rejected, you recognize the pain in another's eyes. If you've ever fallen and been restored, you know how to speak words of grace.
The people who comfort best are those who have cried before.
Consider Joseph. Betrayed by his brothers, sold as a slave, and thrown into prison — yet when he stood before those same brothers years later, he said, "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good." (Genesis 50:20)
Joseph's pain became his pulpit. His tears became a testimony. The very pit his brothers threw him into became the stepping stone to a palace where he saved nations from starvation.
Reflection: The place of your greatest pain can become the platform for your greatest purpose.
God Redeems Our Deepest Pain and Makes It a Ministry
Think of Moses. Once a prince in Egypt, later a fugitive in the desert. He carried the heavy weight of rejection and failure. He had tried to defend his people and failed miserably. For forty years, he lived in obscurity — tending sheep, perhaps believing that his time had passed.
But when God appeared to him in the burning bush, He didn't say, "Moses, you're finished." He said, "Moses, I'm not done with you yet." The very man who ran away from Egypt would return to lead a nation out of bondage. God turned his wilderness into a place of revelation and his staff — once just a shepherd's rod — into an instrument of miracles
Insight: God takes our wounds and turns them into wisdom. He takes our pain and forges purpose.
Like a sculptor shaping marble, God chips away everything in us that doesn't look like Christ. And yes, sometimes the chiseling hurts — but it's the only way the beauty within is revealed.
- Bishop Joseph Mutua Muindi
General Overseer, Cornerstone Christian Church Int'l
Nairobi, Kenya
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