I've been contemplating pain and joy lately and I think that they are pretty intertwined. Just think, if you never experienced joy, how could you understand the depth that pain goes to? And if you never experienced pain, how could you know how amazing joy really is? It seems to me that we need the comparison of each to understand and experience the completeness of the other. Pain helps us remember how amazing joy is by keeping us in the reality of pain for a moment outside of the joys we have expereinced. And joy does the same by letting us feel the extent of its glory because of our own experience with pain.
Perhaps that is why God let Adam fall? So that by the time we get to Heaven we truly understand how amazing and perfect it is! Who knows, but it's a thought.
Funny how even with that comparison I'd rather have the joy than the pain any day!;-)
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