How can you find someone to trust in the midst of your pain?
When we are suffering, how hard it can be to find someone you trust. I mean someone you can really trust to tell what’s going on, someone you can talk to and share your pain with. Having someone like this to trust is within your reach and is always available to you.
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How to Find Someone to Trust in the Midst of Pain
There are lots of ways to find someone to trust in the midst of pain, but not all of them will work as well. If you really want to get to the heart of what truly works, we’re going to have to find out what Jesus did, who he trusted in the midst of his pain, to trust in the midst of his worst moment.
1. Avoid Pain or Retreat from the World
We often want to bottle our pain up or just retreat from the world. We think people won’t notice if we’re not around (and sometimes they don’t).
But taking this course is isolating and can leave you feeling lonely, which can lead to depression, which is often a symptom of pain anyway.
So what can we do? How can you find someone you trust in the midst of your pain?
2. Look to Scripture for Someone to Trust
If we take a close look at scripture, there are many answers to this question, but I want to highlight two, Luke 23:44-46 and Psalm 31:1-5.
Join me in looking at a few passages that can bring extreme comfort, not only in scripture form, but in the form of a real person too.
Find the Same Comfort that Jesus Found When Dying on the Cross
To dig deeper into these 2 scriptures I mentioned above, let’s look to Good Friday and Jesus’ last words on the cross.
Follow this link to look at Jesus’ last words on the cross “Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit” for where he turned for comfort in the midst of his pain on the cross.
I want to paint again for you the picture of Jesus hanging on the cross in his final moments. He has been beaten, whipped, forced to carry his own cross. He has had a nail driven through his right hand, and his left, and through his feet. And he is dripping both sweat and blood… READ MORE…
As we dive into the verses and Jesus’s last words in this related post, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit,” we will learn and know that the comfort Jesus found on the cross is the same comfort he leaves with you. The comfort is this: To know that your sure promise in times of suffering is that your soul is entrusted to the God of Truth, your protector and deliverer.
Discover the comfort that Jesus had and leaves with you on the cross.
10 Comforting Verses for Surviving Hard Times
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Summary
In summary, we wanted to know how to find someone to trust in the midst of our pain. We looked briefly at two ways that don’t help, and one that is the best and surest way of feeling trust comforted and loved, of having someone absolutely reliable in all situations to trust in the midst of our pain.
To recap, we solved:
- How Avoiding and Retreating from others doesn’t work.
- How Looking to Scripture and to the exact place Jesus looked for comfort is what will give us comfort and someone to trust in the midst of our pain.
Conclusion
In conclusion, we may feel alone in our pain, but we absolutely are not. We must resist our temptations to avoid others and retreat from the world. Even if we feel alone, we never are as Jesus is always with us. His name means “God with us” and his last words before his ascension to heaven were “I am with you always.”
In his final moments, Jesus himself gave us our example, as he himself turned to Scripture to comfort himself as he died and breathed his last breath. The same comfort he found is the comfort he leaves with us.
Where did you turn the last time you felt really alone? Did you know that Jesus showed us where to turn to find someone to trust? Did you find this helpful? Leave questions or comments below, and don’t forget to share with others who need to hear this.
Other helpful resources:
- Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
- “Father, Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit”
- Remembering Good Friday
- Mary, the Mother of Jesus- The Unexpected Ending
- Why I Decided to Join the Episcopal Church
- Visualizing New Life in Christ
- Spring, Easter, and New Life
- What is Ascension Day? A Simple Way to Get Peace in Your Life
- What is Pentecost? Strength for Life’s Trials
10 Comforting Verses for Surviving Hard Times
You want to know how Scripture brings hope when life is hard. Download my limited-time, free PDF “10 Comforting Verses for Surviving a Crisis.”
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Most of us and me included go to a family member or friend and all that really does is make us feel better that they empathize with us, but doesn’t solve our problems.
We need to go to the throne instead of the phone!
That’s so true! I caught myself the other day wanting to tell someone first, but stopped to talk to God before doing so. I knew I shouldn’t share something because it would only add fuel to the fire, and thankfully by going to God in prayer, I was able to diffuse the situation and keep it to myself!