Something New Everyday

I always thought of painful situations as unselfish for some reason. I have been reading a book lately called Sacred Marriage (yeah i know, why would i read a marriage book?) and i have been learning so much. Today i was reading how we can even turn our pain into an "all about me" thing. Pain can be the greatest teacher we have. Sometimes it is hard to look past the pain we are facing and see the purpose in it, it can be enough to survive it, but maybe surviving it isn't the purpose or point. Maybe God is behind the scenes orchestrating something greater in our pain than the pain itself. We have to know that no matter how big our pain is, God is bigger still. We have to know that even if we never see the purpose behind our sorrows that God sees. God is alive and working through our joys and our sorrows. He is greater than murder, adultery, rape, hunger, abuse, divorce, even death. He is sovereign. Always. There will never be a situation where we can say that situation is greater than the God who ordained it or allowed. Never. He is always greater and therefore always worthy of worship. That means we worship Him before the pain, during the pain, at the place of pain where there seems to be no end, and after the pain. He is greater. He is worthy. I will worship.