He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever. Revelation 21:4
How do you keep trusting God when the healing you’ve prayed for hasn’t arrived?
Melissa cradles her newborn son. The 34-year-old mom doesn’t show signs of sleep deprivation, and she’s not flustered as her other three children noisily bounce around her. In fact, she seems downright joyful. You’d never know that Melissa lives in chronic pain and has for several decades. Since she had a debilitating head injury as a teen, headaches have been her daily companions.
Think about the last time you were in real pain. How was your mental state? Now imagine that pain never ending. That’s Melissa’s reality. And yet, everyone who meets Melissa loves her. She listens like you’re the only person in the world.
Why?
Maybe it’s because she’s learned how to meet others in their pain. Maybe it’s because she draws strength, daily, from Jesus—who also suffered. Scripture says He was “acquainted with deepest grief” (Isaiah 53:3). He enters into our pain with us.
But Jesus also promises a day of total healing. The Bible says that “He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever” (Revelation 21:4). We live in the tension between those two truths: God with us now, and God restoring all things one day.
It’s painful to hold both. It raises hard questions. But God’s glory can shine even here—in lives like Melissa’s, where suffering hasn’t stolen joy, and love flows through the cracks of an unfinished story.
If you’re living in that tension today, know this: your story matters. Today, God can use it to show His love.
