THE doctors quizzed me.“On a scale of 1–10 of your physical pain, where is this?”
Woken in pain at 2.15am I endured an excruciating eight hours until Ayr Hospital’s Accident and Emergency jagged my thigh with the stuff they give sectioned mothers after birth.
Ah, the relief! Mercifully I was home by 6pm the same day armed with painkillers to help ensure that my two kidney stones ‘Ag on Y’ had ‘come to pass’.
“It came to pass” occurs 463 times in the old King James Bible, introducing events and happenings. And it’s a phrase I regularly repeated to myself sitting on the pan, heaving into the sink and waiting for medical attention.
As the Psalmist puts it, “…weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5b).
I gave my pain an ‘8’. I’m grateful that my wife went through child labour thrice for us and that it wasn’t me. And I admire the people I know, who have to manage searing pain daily, for whom “It came to pass” is not yet true.
I’m grateful that, through faith in Christ, we have Revelation’s bigger picture.
“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling-place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." (Revelation 21:3-4)
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