Man This Hurts

Man This Really Hurts

All these things are the beginning of sorrows

Matt. 24:8

We do everything in the so little power that we have to avoid pain.  Nobody likes it.  I’ve never seen a child fall on the floor and laugh when they look at their knees bleeding and begin laughing hysterically (ok maybe you have).  I’ve never heard of anyone saying, “You know what doc, forget about the anesthesia just operate on my right now.”

If we could, we would live our lives pain free, but we all know that’s impossible. No matter who you are, how old you are, or where you are, you are going to experience some type of pain, some type of hurt, whether it is physical, or mental.  Sometimes it can be self-induced pain, or pain that we inherited, pain that was passed down, pain that came because of a certain situation that you probably had nothing to do with.  As a matter of fact, the only thing you did was be born, and now you are caught up in this whirlwind of agony, torture, and torment.  Right now you are going through, and you don’t know what to do. You’re probably asking yourself when is all of this going to end?

You know what the disciples had the same question too?  They asked Jesus,  “What will be the sign of your coming?”  Let me put the Pastor J remix on that, when is all of this stuff going to end, when are we going to have some peace, because we are sick and tired of being sick and tired.  Jesus looked at them with loving eyes and said, “There will be people coming in my name acting like me, wars, and rumors of wars, nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, people starving, sickness all over….the list goes on (you should read the chapter).

Jesus says, these things must come to pass, but then in verse 8 He says, “These are the beginning of sorrows.” I decided to do a little bit more research, and realized that the word for sorrows in the Greek is oudin, it also means birth pangs. Okay so what are you saying? Reading the text I realized that Jesus says that you must go through these things, before the end can come.  I thought about mothers, when they have babies.  You can’t give birth unless you go through some pain. You’ve gotta have some contractions, before that baby is born. But guess what when the baby is born, it makes all the pain worth it, because you gave birth to something beautiful.  Okay lets jump back into our text, did you realize that Jesus said, that you have got to go through this pain, before the end shall come.  But if you hold on, we will see Jesus Christ, and it will make all the pain worth it. 

Look I know life hurts right now…I know that things are really going the way you would’ve liked them too, but if you would hold on, just know that you are about to give birth to something greater.  You are about to give birth to something better.  You’ve come to far to let go.  Know that that pain won’t always remain. Every time you feel like giving up, just think about the sacrifice Jesus made for you personally.  The Cross shows us that God can take the worst things, and use it to bring the best things.  Greater is He that is in you, than He that is in t