He hurts you a little, to save you from hurting a lot.

Who knew that I could glean from the TV series house!!!  How crazy is that!

There was an episode where there was a young teen who was sick and they didn't know why…yet there was one problem.  She was set to start sailing in a few days to break the world record and she had been training for it for a long time.

Yet, a few days in House's team found out she had cancer in her arm.  This cancer was fairly curable, as long as they amputated her arm.  Yet, if they amputated her arm, she couldn't set sail and break the world record.  So, she stubbornly said that she was going to set sail anyway, because she had been working for it her whole life.  But, if she did set sail, it was very likely the cancer would spread and she would lose her life.

Long story short…while she was in a medically induced coma, the parents signed a wavier to amputate her arm and basically save her life.  When she wakes up, she sees her arm and is furious and all she can think about is how she can't sail and that she has lost her arm.

The parents, however, are just glad that their daughter is alive.

I think this is how we are sometimes with God.  He knows best and He has oversight and wisdom.  He knows more than we even do.

So, sometimes He might hurt us a little, in order to, save us from hurting a lot.

He did this when Jacob wrestled with God in the bible.  He pushed his hip socket, to humble Him.
God could have totally won the wrestling match but He knew it served a purpose, so He only hurt him a little in order to save him from hurting a lot.

Yet, a lot of times when God is doing this.  We find ourselves angry and confused.  In the House episode,  the girl couldn't stop saying my arm, my arm.  We often get so focused on what we have lost, instead of, what we have gained.  She may have lost her arm, but her life was spared.

So, let us start believing that God is in control and it's a good thing too, because He sees what we can't, understands what we don't and has wisdom above us all.