Living Life by Design

A two minute read for busy professionals to start their day (Monday-Friday) with something positive, inspiring and always, thought provoking.

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I’ve had two discs in my neck fail. Each time I thought that my years of playing competitive tennis had finally caught up with me. The surgeon that performed the first operation said it had very little to do with tennis. He went on to say that discs’ have an expiration date. Everyone’s date is different. My date had simply come up. 

The pain I felt waiting for the surgery was like nothing I’d ever experienced before. I was taking Morphine every 4 hours, 3,600 milligrams of Gabapentin a day, and Norco every 6 hours. I could hardly sleep because of the intense pain. With that said, I would go through the pain 100 times over rather than to face the withdrawals of the pain medication again.

I found myself asking why, Lord…why?

In reading Genesis 1-2, God gave me insight to the question. God reminded me that suffering is not part of His original created order. There was no suffering in the world before rebellion against God. There will be no suffering when God creates a new heaven and a new earth (Revelation 21:3–4). Suffering has been and always will be an unwanted intrusion into God’s world. 

David writes in Psalm 16, ‘because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay. You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand (vv.10–11). This is our future hope. This life is not the end. You can look forward to an eternity in the presence of God, to fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore.

When we face unexplained suffering it can be very easy to blame God or ask, why? Our response should be the same as Job’s…he responded by continuing to trust and worship God in his pain, just as he had in his good fortune (Job 1:21,2:10). He remained faithful in the most difficult of circumstances.

Today, remember that, ‘Our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us’ (Romans 8:18). Place your trust in Jesus…

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