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What Pain Can Accomplish In Us

What Pain Can Accomplish In Us

Last updated on: February 4, 2026 at 8:45 am by Jocelyn Soriano

What Pain Can Accomplish In Us 2026-01-26T13:58:17+08:00 Jocelyn Soriano

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If I were to choose, I think I would choose a comfortable and easy life. A life with no heartache or pain. I would choose a path where my faith would not be tested too much, where I would never have moments of fear or doubt.

Who would ever want to choose suffering? Who would ever prefer the more difficult path?

But if we are to recall Jesus’ own words in the Bible, it is the path to destruction that is wide while the path to salvation is narrow.

We can prefer the easier path anytime. But if we ever care about where that path leads, we would thank God for leading us down the narrow but safer road.

He knows that by ourselves, we’d run away from every trouble. Yet in this life, there are things that only pain can accomplish.

What does pain do?

Pain opens our eyes to the truth. While comfort may blind us, pain makes us face reality. It paints a picture of our true condition and shows us the danger we are in.

Pain opens our hearts to salvation. While pleasure may keep us busy with fleeting amusements, pain helps us to see our wounds. It paves the way for healing.

Pain opens our hands to receiving help. While riches falsely make us feel secure, pain lets us know how dependent we truly are upon God’s grace. It urges us to cry out for His mercy and generosity.

It is pain that helps us grow in humility, compassion and kindness. It is our wounds that connect us with the vulnerability and suffering of our brothers and sisters.

In this life, you may experience many troubles. Your heart will be broken and your body will ache from illness.

You may often wonder why God ever allows such things to touch His children.

Why God? Why let us suffer and be silent?

God is silent because He knows what pain can sometimes accomplish in our lives. It is because He loves us that He endures seeing us in our struggles.

God’s patience is such that He is willing to wait for the right time for the fruits of our suffering to ripen. Then and only then will He reveal His wisdom.

Otherwise, He knows how deaf and blind we could be. He may reach out to us, but we’d keep on looking the other way.

Have you ever tried to minister to someone and share the Good News?

There is a proper timing for everything.

Even though you want so much to share faith and let the other person taste the heavenly gifts, you must be patient until it is time.

Because we cannot impose our beliefs on others, no matter how wonderful they are.

We cannot force anyone to seek salvation when they feel no need for it in their lives.

But once pain comes and the truth is revealed, a person becomes open to hearing the truth. And a person becomes open to change.

That is what pain accomplishes.

And God allows this pain so that by our wounds, He can enter in.

“For he wounds, but he binds up;
he strikes, but his hands give healing.
Out of six troubles he will deliver you,
and at the seventh no evil shall touch you.
In famine he will deliver you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword;
From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden,
and you shall not fear approaching ruin.”
Job 5:18-21 (NABRE)

You may also want to read “How Do You Bear Your Most Painful Sufferings in Life?”

Jocelyn Soriano is the author of Mend My Broken Heart, Questions to God and 366 Days of Compassion. She also writes about relationships and the Catholic faith at Single Catholic Writer.

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About Jocelyn Soriano

Jocelyn Soriano is an author, poet, and book reviewer. She is an introvert who enjoys a cup of coffee and listening to the cello ****** while working.

She wrote the books To Love an Invisible God, Defending My Catholic Faith and Mend My Broken Heart. She also wrote books on poetry including Poems of Love and Letting Go and Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief. She has published more than 15 books and developed her own Android applications including God’s Promises and Catholic Answers and Apologetics.

She writes about relationships and common questions about God and the Catholic faith at Single Catholic Writer. She is currently single and happy and she would like everyone to know how happy we can be by drawing close to the love of God!

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