Pain is the Dream

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Garth Heckman

Point 4: 

You get a candle as a gift… you could care less until the electricity goes out and you need it… its a seemingly useless gift until you realize it’s not… it gives you light… the lights actually go on!

 

That’s pain… it seems useless until it allows the lights to go on. 

 

God Redeems Pain He Didn't Cause

Greek: πάθημα (pathema) — general word for suffering (Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 1:5) — often used for suffering that simply happens to someone, not suffering they chose.

 

But God will use it for his Glory in and through us. 

 

Joseph 

Joseph was 

Last - youngest

Loathed - hated by his brothers

Lied about - Dad he was eaten by a lion

Labored as a slave

Lured - by Bathsheba 

Libeled - accused by Bathsheba 

Labeled - still just a prisoner 

Lost - Lost in the system 

Lapsed -  forgotten by the Butler in prison

Left -  left for dead… until Pharaoh had a dream

LIVING - LIVING THE DREAM - LITERALLY!   

 

THE JOSEPH PRINCIPLE — "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20).

 

 

METHOD MAN

WHEN SOMEONE SAYS TO YOU “IM GONNA BRING THE PAIN” - laugh and say “yeah, and I can’t wait to see what God does with it!”