Does Jesus Understand You're Pain?

Jesus quoted this verse when He was talking to his apostles “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jesus is the only way to eternal life because He is our Lord and Savior and He created all things in this world.

Alam mo ba nung pinanganak si Jesus sa mundong to His nature is 100% God and 100% Human.

He became human to understand us and to understand your human emotion especially when you are sad, grieving and in pain so that He can relate to you.

Tuwing naalala ko yung story of Lazarus it really amaze me, why? “Jesus Wept” This is arguably the shortest verse in the Bible. It records the anguish of the Lord over the sorrow of his friends at the death of Lazarus. umiyak at nag-luksa si Jesus when Lazarus died.

Pero kung babasahin mo yung story in the book of John regarding Lazarus bago pa mamatay si Lazarus, His sister already told Jesus about his condition.

“Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.” John 11: 1-3

I had a suspicion before pasabi ni Martha ang kalagayan ni Lazarus I know Jesus already knew it because He is God! He knows everything, He is omniscient, the God of all knowing!

Why Jesus allow it to happen? Why Jesus allow Lazarus to die? Eh pwede namang pagalingin nya si Lazarus kaagad, He can do that because He already done it many times! Sisiw lang yun sa kanya in just one snap of His finger Lazarus can be healed instantly!

Here’s my hint...

Jesus allow it to happen so that He can show His true power and God's glory to those people who will witness the resurrection of Lazarus and also to show us that He can understand our pain when bad things happen especially to our love ones kase nakalagay nga sa scripture "Jesus wept" and it is the perfect picture of a God that are compassionate and a God that understand your pain!

Naiintindihan nya ang pinag-dadaanan naten kase sya mismo naramdaman yun!

You know the word "wept"? Hindi lang yun basta pag-iyak, Jesus cry out loud! Sa tagalog humagulgol si Jesus sa saket na naramdaman nya.

Can you imagine that? Jesus is God, He is the King of kings but He show us His vulnerability!

But after his weeping, you know what happen?

Jesus proves to them that he who will believe in him and trust him will surely see a miracle in their life! They will experience God’s power in their life!

Pag-katapos ng mga pag-iyak at mga sakit merong magandang mangyayari sayo!

There’s always a rainbow after the rain =)

Here’s the verse.

Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”

Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.” – John 11:38-44

Hindi ko ma-imagine yung mga naging reaction nung mga taong naka witness ng pagkabuhay ni lazarus and it is a jaw dropping experience! But one thing is for sure their faith on Jesus has been boosted!

Jesus is the true Lord and the living God and our cornerstone!

I remember when I enter college and I took up BS NURSING kase yun ang gusto ng magulang ko para saken.

Pero ang gusto ko kunin na course that time is computer engineering kase interesado talaga ako sa mga computer programing at gusto ko mangalikot ng mga computer.

Pero sinunod ko pa ren sila at wala naman ako magagawa kase magulang ko sila and so anu nangyari nung 1st year college ako nag struggle talaga ako sa mga science na subject ang nangyari bumagsak ako sa Chem-1 na subject.

Syempre sobrang nakaka disappoint talaga yun sa part ng parents ko, pero pinag-patuloy ko pa ren and then I took my summer class to make up the subject that I fail.

Akala ko sa 2nd year ko magiging okey na ang lahat , pero hindi pa pala naging mas mahirap yung mga science subject ko lalo na yung anatomy and physiology at ayun bumagsak ulit ako!!! For the second time around!

Grabe hindi ko na talaga alam gagawin ko nuon at tapos ang nangyari hindi ko na pwedeng ipag-patuloy yung BS NURSING sa university na pinasukan ko kase meron silang maintaining grade in Nursing at dalawang choice ang pwede kong gawin its either mag shift ako ng course or lumipat ako ng ibang school.

I was on the dilemma that time at I dagdag mo pa yung pressure galing sa parents ko at sinu ba naman matutuwa ng ganun at hindi ko na talaga alam kung anu na ang mangyayari sa future ko , kase I really struggle on my course puro failure lang ang napapala ko.

Nung time na yun gusto ko na I give up yung nursing , pero sinunod ko pa ren ang magulang ko at nag transfer na lang ako ng ibang school at sobrang lake ng adjustment nun para saken yun at idagdag mo pa yung pakikipag break ng GF ko and I really wept that time! ='(

Yun yung isa sa mga down moment ng buhay ko, pero nagtiwala at kumapit lang ako sa Dyos at naalala ko pa nuon every Thursday pumupunta talaga ako ng St Jude sa may mendiola para magsimba at mag novena walang mintis yun.

Hindi ako sumuko at pinag-patuloy ko yung sinimulan ko and I persevere at natapos ko yung degree ko in BS NURSING at nagawa ko yun ng walang ng mga failing subject at hindi ren ako na delay ng year because I graduated on time.

When the time I take the board exam in nursing I able to pass it in just one take and I become a licensed Nurse and until now naalala ko pa ren yung time na lumabas na yung result ng exam at sobrang kina-kabahan talaga ako nuon kase sobrang hirap nung exam eh, tapos nakita ko pa yung percentage ng mga nakapasa nasa 29% lang!

Eh almost nasa 100 thousand ang nagtake ng Nurse licensure Exam sa batch namen at nung time na yun hindi ko talaga ma-i- scroll pababa yung mouse ng computer sa sobrang nerbyos ko!

Nung lumabas yung result mga 10pm yun at ang apelido ko Milag, kaya medyo nasa bandang baba yun at alphabetical order kase sya, so ang ginawa ng kapatid ko walang ka - suspense suspense inagaw nya yung mouse ng computer saken at walang imik na binaba ng mabilis yung list ng mga nakapasa!

Biglang bungad ng pangalan ko, MILAG, JHON ADRIAN N., grabe it was an epic for me! Naghiyawan at nag-talunan kame sa bahay nuon at umiyak talaga ako sa sobrang saya ko at lahat ng mga failure ko at disappointment ko nung nagaaral pa ako, lahat yun bayad!

Akala ko nuon hindi ko na matatapos yung course ko na yun at nawalan na talaga ako ng pagasa nuon but because of God's grace and mercy I made it!

God lifted me up and Jesus cry with me in my failure and resurrected me throughout my failure!

Maybe you're on that same situation right now and you want to weep because of the pain that you experience.

Someone in your family died at hindi mo yun matangap and maybe someone broke your heart at iniwan ka nya sa ere at pinaasa ka lang or someone you trust lie and cheated on you or you fail on your major subject at ang masakit pa nun nagaral ka naman ng mabuti pero bumagsak ka pa ren.

Maybe you have problems in your Job and you're boss want to fire you or maybe you fail many many times in your business and you are bankrupt right now!

Maybe you're parents abandon you at simula nung pagkabata mo tinatanung mo sa sarili mo bakit nila nagawa yun or maybe your father abuse you or someone molested you.

Whatever you've going through right now.

God is telling you that He understands your pain and He understand your tears and brokenness.

Katulad ng pag-iyak nya when He saw Lazarus died! He is also crying with you now and He will comfort you and He will embrace you because He knows that feeling.

Nakakarelate sayo ang Dyos!

Alam nya yung sakit at hapdi ng puso mo ngayon alam nya lahat ng hiling at bulong ng puso mo kahit hindi mo pa sabihin sa kanya.

Remember Jesus is 100% human and also 100% God at katulad ng miracle na ginawa nya kay Lazarus, He can also do it in your life and He will show you that He is God and He is still in control of everything! After your pain and your tears expect that resurrection is coming!

He will never waste any single hurts and single pain in your life and He will use it for His glory, He will use you as a living testimony of His love.

God allow that crisis to happen because he has a Purpose and your story will bless the world!

Katulad ng ginawa ng Dyos sa buhay ko nuon He can do it in your life =)

Trust Him everything will be alright!

"Together Towards Radical Change"

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