A God of Pain

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

God speaks to us in many different ways, but the way we always hear him the best is through our trials in life. God does not want us to feel pain, that's why he created heaven so that we wouldn't always have to live in a painful world. The problem though is that we take that promise for granted and often times ignore what God has to say to us. That's why he allows terrible things to happen in our lives because that's when we hear him best. It's also how we grow stronger in our relationship with God. God has to get our attention somehow and sadly that somehow is through our suffering because we like to ignore him when things are going great in life. 

Lately I have been having to remind not just myself but several of my friends who have come to me with things going on in their lives of this. The only way for things to get better is to trust in God and listen when he shouts at us through our pain. All we have to do is listen, so long as we listen and trust in God he will protect us. However, there are times when bad things happen despite how good we've done when it came to listening to God. You just have to trust that those things happen for a reason and their sole purpose is to bring you closer to God.