Spiritual Pain

For centuries, people have asked why God allows pain and suffering. Best-selling author, Bonnie Baker, makes a compelling case regarding the meaning behind hardship as an essential component of our relationship with the Lord. Whether it's her near-death experience or her miraculous recovery from a stroke, Bonnie describes how burdens that come with pain—whether spiritual, emotional, mental or physical—can be hard to bear.

One of the greatest questions of life is, Why do God's children have to suffer? In Why Life Hurts see that question answered in a short, precise, easy-to-understand manner. The purpose of this book is to help those who are perplexed by the frequent and systematic occurrence of pain, suffering, and evil. Understand the beautiful picture God is painting with the diverse circumstances that color our lives.

“Why me?” is the cry I hear most often in my work as a hospice chaplain. I’m not a theologian, but through my encounters with people who are elderly, disabled, dying, and bereaved - and through my own quest for peace - Jesus’ teachings known as the Beatitudes have become essential. They describe the attributes of God’s people: God is with those who suffer, those beaten down by life and rejected by the world.

So you see, you don’t just come to God through the name of Jesus Christ; but you come to God through the wounds of Jesus, and through the beatings and death that He suffered.

The apostle Peter described faith as "much more precious than gold that perishes". As gold passes through purifying fire, so Peter says a man's faith must be tried in order that it "might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:7). While we address the crises in our lives that try our faith, we rarely praise God the way Job did, and we rarely submit ourselves to the purifying fire as Peter suggests.

In The Building Blocks of Pain, Apostle Hubbard goes in-depth to help the believer understand how God uses the pain in our lives to prepare for his work. As he deals with the harsh reality that everyone does not understand our pain, but yet we try to make them understand something that was tailor-made for us based on our own individual walk in Christ. This is most definitely an eye-opener as well as a powerful tool of revelation for those who are trying to make sense of the pain they are enduring in their Christian life.