If there is no pain, then it is right to think there is no sorrow. But in reality in daily life the present of pain is a precious gift in disguise that needs to be consciously appreciated every moment of life. When there is no pain, a match fire will char the skin; a nail clipper snips deep and blood just flows; a penknife over cuts and the pinky bleeds; the surgeon has no way to find out if the person is alive only through pulse or heartbeat; the rolling over of a boy in an accident becomes a numb to common pedestrians; the headache would not know when to take paracetamol; the laughter will continue until we die laughing; then there wouldn't be a need for relief; there wouldn't be a need for a Savior.
The leper feels no pain and so losing a part of the body does not hurt much but hurts mentally I supposed. The seeking for healing from leprosy in one sense is to seek to have the gift of pain. When the finger gets pricked, it responds with a reflex and that reflex has a combination of so many (thousands) signals within the body system.
How marvelous are God's work of grace in everyone of us! How unfathomable are His wisdom and His ways!
This we only talk about the body system. How about the system of the parts of the world, universe, space and beyond.
Blows my mind (reminds me of a scene in Indiana Jones' where the lady wanted to have more knowledge from the aliens and it was so much that it really exceeds the capacity of our minds)
No pain, no gain!
But one day with Jesus in heavenly dwellings, yes there will be no more pain, no more tears and no more sorrows. For now, we need pain (not referring to self inflicted ones of course) to remind us to seek the Lord faithfully and to draw others into His kingdom.
