Connecting With God

Pain comes in many packages: physical, emotional, mental.... It is delivered through various means: circumstances in life, work, school, through the mail, through various people, even in the normal pace of things, and more.

Personally, as is the case with most of us, I've faced far more "dark" times then anyone can imagine. I've done well at keeping it to myself. Maybe that hasn't been the best thing to do. But you have faced them too. God knows, and He cares, and He will always work for us if we ask Him. No one can go so far that He cannot help.
Romans 8:38-39 (NIV) says, For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The path to connecting with God may surprise you. I am convinced that the way to having needs met is to think first of others. If we do so with the right heart, God will do the rest. What better example than Job: When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before! (Job 42:10, NIV)