Same Pain Same God

Sunday night The Simple Church (my church) watched a video on Rwanda and the genocide that went on there. With around 1 million people killed in under 100 days in 1994. The founder of African New Life Ministries was there talking about what his organization is doing now in Rwanda. When watching the documentary one woman talked about the pain of loosing her family. Her pain was so apparent as she cried. It was interesting to me that even though i couldn't understand what she was saying (w/out of course reading the subtitles) I was aware of her pain. I found my self ignoring the subtitles and just understanding as she cried. Her pain looks the same as my pain and your pain. And the God she cried out to for relief from the pain is the same God that we cry out to. God made us so unique, but yet He gave us the same set of emotions. We just experience those emotions differently. We all feel pain--you, me, the man behind you at the grocery story, and the woman that lost everyone she loved in Rwanda. Each story is different, but the pain is the same. I believe that He gave us this similarity so we could share it and not have to go through the hard times alone. 

1 Corinthians 10:13 (The Message) No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he'll never let you be pushed past your limit; he'll always be there to help you come through it. 

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