Help! I’m Hurting!
Submitted by Frank Williams
July 29, 2024
Ps 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
The Hurts
Truth is, we live in a world of hurt! People are suffering all around us from all kinds of hurts—physical, emotional, and spiritual. All the hurts of this world are the result of sin, and it cost Adam’s race a pain-free existence. We must accept the reality, that as long as we live in this flesh, we will be subject to hurts.
The Help
Thankfully, the gracious Lord has made help available. Some of these are as follows—exercise, diet, change in lifestyle, or even medical help. Of course, these ways of assistance are limited and temporary at best.
We need to go to the Lord Jesus for help. We read His Word and pray. We seek His face, and we trust His wise ability to give us both comfort and endurance. He is always so loving and faithful to meet with us.
He also has provided a spiritual hospital—His local church. It is the Lord’s creation that is commissioned to go into the world with the healing balm of the Gospel and Truth. He gifted to it pastors, teachers, and brethren who are enabled to minister help to us.
Eph 4:11 And he gave...pastors and teachers;
1Ti 3:15 ...the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
We should also seek the Lord’s help to control our thought life. Thinking right is helpful.
Php 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
The Hope
When hurting and struggling, we may wonder if it will ever go away. Yes, Beloved, it will go away—eventually. We have such a wonderful future planned out and given to us by the Lord. It is an eternal hope. Don’t allow the devil to steal it away. John 14:1-3
The Healing
Jesus is our Healer. Healing begins when we are born again by faith, and it will culminate in the eventual glorification of both body and soul.
Ro 8:30 ...whom he justified, them he also glorified.