Spiritual Warfare Or Real Life Pain

So, I'm sitting here, in my living room, listening to NeedToBreathe's LAY 'EM DOWN...another song quickly rising to the top of my favorite songs list. The song has the old time feel to it. Kind of like the song in O Brother, Where Art There when the one guy gets baptized.

While I love the song, I have issue with this lyric:

Make good on a promise To never hurt again

Let me explain why.

It makes it sound like that, when you give your life to Christ, you'll never again hurt. The exact opposite is true. Sometimes I feel like I hurt more because of my relationship with Christ. It is because there is a war going on for my soul.

The author of Ephesians tells us this in chapter 6, verse 12:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

I figure that if I'm hurting, it's because my soul is being fought over.

God doesn't promise that we'll stop hurting when we give our lives to Him. He only promises that He, and He alone, will fix what is hurting us.

In war, whether spiritual or physical, there is bound to be hurt. Someone, including ourself, will get hurt. I've been hurt more emotionally and mentally since I chose to walk with Christ.

The difference is that I can turn to Him to make me "all better".

We will hurt even as Christians. We will look at the unfairness of the world and wonder why we must suffer while the wicked succeed. We will find oursleves in situations that we wouldn't wish on our worst enemy.

Job lost everything. Paul and Silas were imprisoned. Christ Himself was crucified.

We are given the promise that God will heal our hurts.

But, we are also given this promise in Luke 10:19

Behold, I give unto you the power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Luke isn't talking about literallly walking on serpents or scorpions. It was a metaphor for demons. We have the power in Christ to overcome with Him on our side. We will, as long as we live, suffer physical and emotional pain. However, we can take joy in the fact that comfort is given to us thru Christ. He hurts when we do.

He feels our every pain: emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual.

However, our hurt and pain is covered by His Blood.

So, He will take our hurt and comfort us when we need Him most.

And so maybe we won't really hurt after all.