More lessons learnt from being injured

ok, a couple of days ago, i blogged that i stacked my bike. Well, my shoulder is still sore, however i have learnt some more lessons because of my injury (it is only a graze/burn on my shoulder)

1. The bible says that when on part of the body suffers the whole body suffers along with it (1 Corth 12:26). Though my shoulder is the only part of me that is injured, (well only part that is still hurting). I have been learning this in a very physical way. Cause in order to do some stuff, i have to do them in a different way, (i can't reach my right arm highier than my shoulder) some of my other muscles have been hurting, like my stomache and chest muscles. Also when i try to do somethings normally it hurts my shoulder, even though i am not using my shoulder. Like if i go for a run, it hurts my shoulder, therefore i haven't ran, mind you i dont run that often anyway, only when playing some sort of sport, or when i am mucking around. So having this graze on my shoulder has affected the way i do many things, or even if i do some stuff, which therefore affects other muscles and parts of my body. It is a great illistration of when one part of the body of Christ suffers, we all feel it. Another illustration of this is still with my shoulder, however it involves my fellow Gen1 members. They see the wound and they cringe, cause they can either feel the pain or imagine how much it hurts. So me being injured affects the others around me.
2. Our pain affects how and sometimes our capability to worship God. You see i went to Revolution last night, and i was limited in what i could do to worship God, i wanted to lift my hands, but it hurt, i wanted to jump and dance around, but it hurt. It made me realise that our hurts from the past, the pain that it leaves in us, limits our relationship with God. God wants to bring us healing from these hurts of our life, so that we are free, and unrestricted in our relationship with Him, and free to worship and be unrestricted in our worship of God.

So they are a few lessons, i pray they are thought provoking to you, and that you can learn from my physical pain.

Lux