Pain Can Warn Us Of Danger
We hate pain, especially in those we love.
Yet without discomfort, the sick wouldn't go to a
doctor.
Worn-out bodies would get no rest.
Criminals wouldn't fear the law.
Children would laugh at correction.
Without pangs of conscience, the daily
dissatisfaction of boredom, or the empty longing
for significance, people who are made to find
satisfaction in an eternal Father would settle for
far less.
The example of Solomon, lured by pleasure and
taught by his pain, shows us that even the wisest
among us tend to drift from good and from God
until arrested by the resulting pain of their own
shortsighted choices
(Ecclesiastes 1-12; Psalms 78:34-35;
Romans 3:10-18).