Pain. ( Psalm 22 )

What's the price ?,that's what want to know when we buy something ,recently in one of my daily readings by a man called Mike Witter wrote, 'Pain is the price of love'. That struck a chord within me, because it's very true,and there are so many examples of that in life.If you have a pet it is going to die,that's painful, looking after someone you love who is chronically ill,that's painful.It does not end there for death will come, and that's a pain that will always be there.In the musical ,'Les  Miserables',based on a book by Victor Hugo,part of the story is about an attempted revolution that failed.There is a song, sung by a young man,who lost his friends in that revolution,we have the following words in that is song,'There's a grief that can't be spoken,there's a pain that goes on and on'.Yes pain is often the price of love,There is a cost with true love, we see this in Gods redemption of mankind, we read that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son (John 3 v16),from the moment our Saviour was born,He knew what it would lead to,pain.more pain than you and I could ever imagine,and it was all borne out of  love. for you and for me.

                                                         'I stand amazed in the presence

                                                          of Jesus the Nazarene,

                                                          And wonder how He could love me,

                                                          A sinner, condemned unclean.

                                                          How marvellous! how wonderful

                                                          And my song shall ever be;

                                                          How marvellous! how wonderful

                                                          Is my Saviours love for me'.

                                                                 Words C H. Gabriel.