Pain

     Our own desires for comfort and for our physical bodies and lives to be pain free, is just that-"our desires." In our carnal selves, we crave to be relieved of any and all sufferings, and we will use many means to do that. Accepting pain from any source in our lives is to accept the will of God. He uses the pain we accept, for reliance on Him to either deliver us from it, or trust Him with it and through it.   He also uses it for His purposes, as we give it to Him. This is a hard reality, but is also part of surrendering our wills (or carnal desires) for His, so that He alone can be glorified.