BBD 06.04.21 No More Pain (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

04 June 2021

No More Pain

And God
will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor
sorrow, nor crying. There shall be NO MORE PAIN, for the former things have
passed away. - Revelation 21:4 NKJV.

The
headline says, “Breakthrough Pain Relief Therapy” which for
those suffering from pain sounds like great news indeed. There is an emerging
treatment for pain, which uses light therapy, and this emerging pain treatment
appears to be a very new technology, but researchers have been testing this
approach for over 45 years. The therapy uses light emitting diode technology to
relieve Arthritis and pain that is non-specific. I’m personally wondering if it
will work on a toothache. The fact is that pain is a fact of life for every
human being to some degree. So many people bear an incredible burden of pain
every day from cancer pain to arthritis pain. From back pain to cancer pain
there is more than enough pain to go around, and we would all welcome any kind
of relief from whatever pain we may be experiencing. Not only do we experience
physical pain, but also, there is emotional pain, and then there are some
people who just give us pain.

The
saints of old were not immune from pain from the boils of Job to the thorn of
the apostle Paul to the torture of Christians, which continues even today.
Jabez prayed that he would be kept from evil so that he would not cause pain.
Jabez knew that would be hard for him because his very name meant pain. There
is so much evil and pain in this world from murder to robbery and things so much
worse that they are unspeakable and unprintable and there seems to be more and
more of it.

How can
we go on in a world of pain? How
can live when it hurts so much? The apostle Paul was able to continue
living with pain because God said to him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in
weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9a).” Paul
responded by saying, “Therefore most
gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest
upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in
persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am
strong (2 Corinthians 12:9b-10).” The
heroes of the faith of Hebrews 11 were able to endure through faith and we are told, “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having
seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the earth (Hebrews 11:13).”

All
those saints of old who endured the pain of the world knew that there was a
better world ahead and as the writer of Hebrews puts it so well, “God having provided something better for us… (Hebrews 11:40a).” Through faith, we look forward to that day when there will be “NO MORE PAIN!” And there will be on
that glorious day, “no more death, nor sorrow,
nor crying” and the “former things” will “have passed away.” By faith let us
endure and through our weaknesses bring glory to our Lord.

Copyright © 1999 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa
Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark
S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Bill S.; Shonda
Hutson (fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife, Jeanie, who is having a
problem with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

04 June 2021

No More Pain

And God
will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor
sorrow, nor crying. There shall be NO MORE PAIN, for the former things have
passed away. - Revelation 21:4 NKJV.

The
headline says, “Breakthrough Pain Relief Therapy” which for
those suffering from pain sounds like great news indeed. There is an emerging
treatment for pain, which uses light therapy, and this emerging pain treatment
appears to be a very new technology, but researchers have been testing this
approach for over 45 years. The therapy uses light emitting diode technology to
relieve Arthritis and pain that is non-specific. I’m personally wondering if it
will work on a toothache. The fact is that pain is a fact of life for every
human being to some degree. So many people bear an incredible burden of pain
every day from cancer pain to arthritis pain. From back pain to cancer pain
there is more than enough pain to go around, and we would all welcome any kind
of relief from whatever pain we may be experiencing. Not only do we experience
physical pain, but also, there is emotional pain, and then there are some
people who just give us pain.

The
saints of old were not immune from pain from the boils of Job to the thorn of
the apostle Paul to the torture of Christians, which continues even today.
Jabez prayed that he would be kept from evil so that he would not cause pain.
Jabez knew that would be hard for him because his very name meant pain. There
is so much evil and pain in this world from murder to robbery and things so much
worse that they are unspeakable and unprintable and there seems to be more and
more of it.

How can
we go on in a world of pain? How
can live when it hurts so much? The apostle Paul was able to continue
living with pain because God said to him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in
weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9a).” Paul
responded by saying, “Therefore most
gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest
upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in
persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am
strong (2 Corinthians 12:9b-10).” The
heroes of the faith of Hebrews 11 were able to endure through faith and we are told, “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having
seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the earth (Hebrews 11:13).”

All
those saints of old who endured the pain of the world knew that there was a
better world ahead and as the writer of Hebrews puts it so well, “God having provided something better for us… (Hebrews 11:40a).” Through faith, we look forward to that day when there will be “NO MORE PAIN!” And there will be on
that glorious day, “no more death, nor sorrow,
nor crying” and the “former things” will “have passed away.” By faith let us
endure and through our weaknesses bring glory to our Lord.

Copyright © 1999 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa
Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark
S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Bill S.; Shonda
Hutson (fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife, Jeanie, who is having a
problem with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time constraints
the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email
to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the
confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org