...Do your sins hurt God? -Job 35:6, CEV
But, what about our ability to cause pain? Shall we classify it with our desperate need for food, water, clothes, shelter, and oxygen? We need each of these things every day; some need it more than others, but, essentially, everybody needs them. The United Nations should agree on that (sic).
But pain…I don’t think it’s one of them. It doesn’t feed six kids and a pregnant wife on a small dining room table –it feeds off it. It doesn’t help for a grieving mother whose son died on a freak car accident- it only exacerbates it. It won’t even stop parents from divorcing-instead, it flares with it.
No sane person likes to feel pain, mucho menos provide the proper tools to energize it.
A broken dream. A broken house. A broken family. A broken life. We are all experts at shunning our humanity, condescending our brothers with superficial pity until pain knocks on our door.
And then, what about the pain we cause with our own hands?
An addiction that ruins a family.
A sickness that has no cure for the soul.
A war that divides the world in two.
What can we say? Some things happen because…they happen, but others happen because we are careless…pitiless…broken. Like I said before, that is our fateful heritage for being sons of Cain.
Look at this graph:
How many people have we hurt with our sins and actions, in secret or in public? How many dreams have we failed and defeated with our stupid actions? How many hearts have we broken for the most sadistic of reasons?
How many times have we broken the heart of God? How many? I believe the count can’t go higher enough.
But even then, it cannot last forever... Pain cannot last forever...