The purpose is the cross.
Maybe it’s the heart posture. The one where your heart longs for your creator more than anything else. The one where His will supersedes your desires even when you don’t understand it. So, the purpose in the pain. Is that the one where I suffer for a period of time and I am rewarded in multiple folds, like in Job 42:12 - the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life even more than He had blessed the first. Job owned fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, two thousand head of cattle, and one thousand donkeys. There is purpose in the pain… the purpose I have found is that a good God created man in His image. This man was created to fellowship with this God forever and ever. The plot thickened and man fell off, this love story was jeopardised. Then this same good God in His infinite goodness, made a way for man to connect himself back to the creator. And until man is finally round about the bridge, back to forever fellowship with this good God, man will be required daily to pre...
