Joy Overcoming Pain

Isn't it funny how joy makes one forget pain?

Coming to the Lord is painful. Peter told of the fiery trial.

1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

The trail is painful. Weeping and repentance. People you used to know rejecting your new life in Christ.

Even people that claim Christ rejecting you because of the light you shine forth. Darkness in any form hates light.

But the joy always overcomes the pain. That joy even brings about loss of memory because the trials no longer seem as painful.

John 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

1 Peter 1:7 �That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Unto praise and honour and glory at His appearing...
Come Lord Jesus...come!

Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.