Daily devotion – sorrow’s purpose
Sorrow’s purpose
When we go through storms and trials in our own lives and we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, when we become acquainted with sorrow and pain in our own lives, let us not waste such a time and the pain we endure.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 “Comfort each other and edify one another.”
Those who have suffered most are best able to comfort others passing through suffering and sorrow. They know what it is to suffer, and they understand more than others what a suffering person is experiencing – physically, emotionally and spiritually.
They are able to empathize as well as sympathize with the afflictions of others, because what they have experienced in their own lives. We can use the pain we have gone through, we can harness the sorrow that has washed over us and we can then in turn be a blessing to those in the heat of their own storm!
Our sufferings may be rough and hard to bear, but they teach us lessons that in turn equip and enable us to help others. Our attitude towards suffering should not be, “to grit our teeth and bear it,” hoping that it will pass as quickly as possible.
Rather, our goal should be to learn all we can, to harness our new expertise, when we are called upon to endure, so that we in turn can “comfort each other and edify one another.”