Perpetual Pain
“Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts...Why is my pain perpetual And my wound incurable, Which refuses to be healed? Will You surely be to me like an unreliable stream, As waters that fail?” Jeremiah 15:16, 18 NKJV http://bible.com/114/jer.15.16,18.nkjv The preciousness in the blessings of peace from the Lord is apparently found in perpetual painful experiences. When people say darkness reveals the brightness in the light, it shouldn’t be hard to understand why perpetual pain also reveals the preciousness of peace. But then, Jeremiah’s questions are popular experiences of the human minds: it is difficult to find comfort in painful experiences. Yet, prophet Jeremiah only neglected the previous fellowship experience with God through the entrance of His word. Unlike the transient excitement of the head through the affluence of wealth, the word of God brings stable joy...