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24…LIGHT AT THE END OF

YOUR TUNNEL

Good morning! We live in such an instantaneous world. I think having all the technology that’s available to us today helps make us want everything right now. When’s the last time you marveled at the fact that you can send emails, text, or photos to someone hundreds of miles away in just moments? But here’s a more telling question. When’s the last time you got really aggravated when that same technology took a minute to work instead of merely seconds?

Patience is something I think everyone walking on the face of this earth struggles with. We want to get from A to Z at lightning speed. We often don’t have the patience to get through the processes that are required in life. You know, like when a loved one dies, and you don’t want to go through the grieving process. You just want to get to the other side of it, so the heartache will stop. Or when you’re suffering with a physical ailment and you just want the healing to happen so that the pain will go away. And when there are broken relationships and you go through the “breaking up” process, there’s pain there, too. God uses every ounce of our pain in life for His purpose and glory and our good. Not one single tear goes unnoticed by our Heavenly Father. When in pain, I go to a couple of verses for comfort. 1 Peter 5:10 says, “After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.“ And 2 Corinthians 4:17 says, “For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison…” These verses comfort me because they remind me that the pain will end. These promises of God do not say that we don’t have to go through the processes though. But based on these and many other promises, we know there is a light at the end of those painful tunnels. When our Light is Jesus Christ, we can endure the pain. Praying you can comfort someone in pain today with God’s promises.

Lord, thank You that there is a light at the end of our tunnel and that the light is You. Amen.