Pain by Elmer Towns

Author:Elmer Towns [L. Towns, Elmer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7684-0514-9
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

God didn’t take away the writer’s suffering because he prayed, nor did God take away the suffering of His people in the wilderness. No, they suffered, but God was with them in their suffering: “God steps through the raging sea and God walks through the overwhelming floods, but God’s footprints are not known and are not seen, yet God still leads His people” (Ps. 77:19-20, ELT).

So What Should You Do When the Night Comes?

You need to remember to keep doing in the night what you’ve learned to do in the sunlight: listen and follow God’s voice. Isn’t that what the writer of the psalm said? “I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, and my spirit makes diligent search” (Ps. 77:6). Even in dark places, you need a song to put your mind on God and His healing so that you can get your mind off your pain and suffering. You may need music in your room by any type of mechanical device possible: recording, radio, MP3 player, or someone singing.

In May 1999 my mother was dying in the Telfair Hospital, Savannah, Georgia. Her body was swollen with poison and finally her arms became so huge that the nurse could no longer find the vein for the life-giving IV. Finally she was moved to the care of hospice (this is the civilized term that says we’ve given up all hopes of saving her physically, so we’re making her comfortable to die).

There was a Christian nurse who had been converted to Christ in Kingsport Baptist Temple, Kingsport, Tennessee. Now she was living in Savannah, and she had a ministry of singing in churches. But she also sang as she made her rounds in the hospital. Every time she entered my mother’s room, she began singing a different Christian song or hymn. Besides the medicine and professional care she gave, her ministry of music always brought a smile to my mother’s face, perhaps an inner awareness that God was with her and would walk with her through her personal valley of the shadow of death.

Remember, God never intended for the night to be permanent. He has divided a 24-hour day into light and darkness. So darkness is planned for every person—saved and unsaved—just as God gives the gift of sunlight. So if you’re walking in the darkness, you can be assured that morning is coming.

Also, remember that God accomplishes many things in the darkness of night. In the coolness of night, the root systems of plants grow, the dew falls to refresh the leaves, and life breaks forth anew. So, in your darkness, grow those things that are below the surface, things that can’t be seen. Just as God has intended to refresh our physical bodies with sleep, so too we must realize that God has a purpose in our night seclusions—so we must learn what those purposes are.

You may feel abandoned and alone; you may even sense deep frustration, but realize, “All things work together for good to those who love God” (Rom.

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