Pain

Hook:

Right now I hear

But I wanna see

I need you to show me

You bottle my tears

Pain is the key

To making me Holy

Verse 1:

Yeah

Dark clouds in the sky turn into rain

I know you wanna cry from the hurt and pain

It's hard to see God in the eye of the hurricane

And so you wanna turn away from this chapter in your life wanna turn the page

It's the hard knock life and the earth's decaying

Trying hard not to murmur and complain

It's easier said than than done with those hunger pangs

You can't even buy your son Burger King

Just got laid off so currently

Trying to make ends meet and that's a further strain

I know you're stressed out gotta learn to pray

So God can give you peace for the burdens laid

Down at his feet where the servants lay

He loves you, so don't turn away

You in the fire, but won't burn in the flame

Hook

Verse 2:

I know it's cold in the winter months

And I know that that trial you in the middle of

Man I know it might feel like a little much

I know it might feel like a little much

And though deliverance is slow like the little bus

Don't faint stand firm no givin' up

Understand that, God won't give you more than you can bear

Your trials are just little cubs

Big Him, big plan, man little us

I know the season in your life is a little rough

I know you're drinking up strife from the bitter cup

God is painting a picture of

Himself, so it's gotta be beautiful

He's gotta use bright colors and muted tones

Gotta use life's comforts and funerals

I know it hurts, but it helps you to grow

Hook

[God is using pain in our lives

Help us grow. Help us get older.]

Verse 3:

Yeah

Praise God that the Father is forming us

Shaping, making, and conforming us

So at times our pain is to grow us up

Other times my pain is for someone else

Cause death in me is life in you

That's what we see when He died for you

'Cause one man's pain is another's pleasure

Just as one man's trash is another's treasure

'Cause sometimes God will cause the pain

He'll create the fire and the rain

I hear you praying Lord take it all away

But if He won't it's because He knows what it takes

To produce fruit and make his people whole

He knows when pressure is applied to coal

A beautiful diamond is the goal

You're in the fire but you're coming out as pure gold

Hook

[See I think it's important for us to have a big picture

perspective on pain. A lot of times, we see pain as a bad

thing; trials, suffering, you see it as a bad thing. But when

we look in the scriptures, we see that God prescribes pain.

He doesn't just allow it he causes it sometimes; read

Deuteronomy chapter 8. But it's so necessary, because in it

He conforms us into the image and the likeness of His Son.

So I just wanna encourage the people of God, please understand

that God is using your pain for His own glory.]