"There is Purpose in Pain"

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“There is purpose in Pain”

-Robin LaShelle



Last night I was on the phone with my best friend who has been away on the road for the past few weeks. We were playing catch up and sharing things that had been going on in our lives and we began to reflect over some of the challenges that had taken place in our lives. Charlena begin to share all the wonderful things that God was doing in her life and my mind begin to drift during the conversation and I begin to think about some of her recent challenges, then I begin to think about how everything she went through was setting her up for her right now. Its not my story to tell but its amazing how one event after the other had to take place in order for to receive what God had in store for her. I think it safe to say, one particular situation was painful and mind boggling and she found her self questioning life, finding it hard to accept the fact that sometimes God plan is not our plan and many times we may not understand his plan but if we continue to trust him and reframe from trying to work things out ourselves, at the end of the battle we will see his glory. She said to me “Robin after everything I just had to go through God still made a way, He still had a way of providing” I said “There is purpose in pain” and me just saying that, I realized It was something I needed to hear myself. I pulled out my notebook and I begin to doodle over and over again there is Purpose in Pain, there is purpose In pain, There is Purpose in Pain and begin to say it silently to myself and I made it personal… I said “Robin There is unifying purpose in Pain” The very fact that you are able to emotionally connect to adversities is clear indication that God is not done and you are not at a place where you have become completely numb, and or lost your mind. I reminded of a situation my mother went through in 2009. She’s was walking around in pain and long story short she went to the doctor only to find out that the pain she was in was life threatening. In fact she was bleeding internally and didn’t even know it. Then we later found out that the pain was related to something far greater than any of us could ever imagine, but the blessing in it all was the fact that she was able to feel the pain, now if my mother didn’t feel any pain at all (like many people who went through what she went through) this thing could have took her right up out of here, but this is why I say there is unification in pain. Everything that took place with my mother was orchestrated by God and connected to her destiny. I believe It’s just some things that God forces us to go through so that we are fully equipped to handle our destiny, and something’s that God will forces to happen so that we can walk in our destiny. Sometimes in life when we are destined to do something, we allow fear to get in the way and we want to stay in our safe place. We lack faith and become afraid of failure all because we struggle with having control. If we are unsure of Gods next move we don’t want to trust him at all or we will trust him with part of the situation but not the entire situation. Our biggest failure in life is failing to get out of our own way and being afraid of a little pain. However we live in a world were we cant get around “Pain” there is no exceptions, no way to get around it but if you endure until the end of the test God will surely how you his glory, How do I know? I have witnessed it through the life of my best friend and my mother. I pray you have been inspired and encouraged to believe that even though pain is an uncomfortable place to dwell in, there is always purpose in what you go through, you may not know what it is right away but God will reveal it to you in the end!

Until we chat again, be blessed and go through the pain so that you can walk in your destiny!

Robin Lashelle