Chronic Pain

What I have learned about chronic pain

Live with Chronic Pain

• Keep God's Word in front of you.
• Get involved with a local church and a small group of believers.
• Seek wise and biblical counseling through your local church.
• Look for a way to do something that is enjoyable and will lift your spirits. Take a fun class or pursue a hobby.
• Journal your prayers, thoughts, emotions, and concerns.
• Join a support group for the specific trial or illness.
• Find simple ways to serve others.
• Track God's faithfulness and goodness.

For those who love someone in Chronic Pain

• Be slow to judge whether someone is suffering, grieve and mourn alongside the one who suffers.
• Be slow to speak the truth, a person needs to hear and quick to prayerfully discern if you should offer encouragement with scripture and God's promises.
• Be slow to impatience and quick to exercise long-suffering patience.
• Be slow to run away from the discomfort of another's pain, ask God to grow your own faith in his sufficiency.
• Be slow to speak your opinions and solutions and quick to listen and hear God's heart.
• Be slow to do the minimum and quick to serve in whatever way God calls you.
• Be slow to view a person's suffering as their problem and quick to see their problem and quick to see their suffering as your opportunity to love, serve, and be blessed by the body of Christ.
• Be slow to believe you aren't equipped to help and quick to comfort with the unique gifts and personality God has given you.