"If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?""In a way I wish I could take to heaven my old, tattered Everest & Jennings wheelchair. I would point to the empty seat and say, Lord, for decades I was paralyzed in this chair. But it showed me how paralyzed You must have felt to be nailed to Your Cross. My limitationstaught me something about the limitations You endured when You laid aside your robes of state and put on the indignity of human flesh. At that point, with my strong and glorified body, I might sit in it, rub the arm rests with my hands, look up at Jesus, and add,the weaker Ifelt in this chair, the harder I leaned on You. And the harder I leaned, the more I discovered how strong You are. Thank you, Jesus for learning obedience in your suffering...You gave me grace to learn obedience in mine."
"God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character."
"The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God."
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
See: http://christianreformedink.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/is-pain-a-punishment/
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