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"Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." (Philippians 3:21)Many of us, to some extent, have bodies that are wracked with pain and sickness. It may be the result of an accident. It may be the result of a former addiction. It may be because of age. Then again, it may be the result of that which is allowed by the will of God as it was with Job. The reason "why" the pain isn't important. What's important is our response to pain.Pain has a way of humbling us because it reminds us that we are nothing more than dust. We, being nothing more than dust, isn't man's conclusion, it's God's. We find in Genesis 3:19 the Lord speaking to Adam, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Let none of us think then that we walk on higher ground than Adam who was humbled that day in the Garden of Eden and lived 930 years with the pain of his disobedience to the One Who created him.Lest we forget, pain is often allowed by God for the reason that so many of us tend to overlook, that being, that the Lord may be glorified. I'm sure there was a great deal of pain felt by Lazarus' sisters as they watched their brother become sick one day and then later die. When Jesus heard the news about His good friend, He answered, "...This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby." (John 11:4) Oh, that God may be glorified as we suffer with our pain.We also learn from the Scriptures that we are not alone in our sufferings and pain. Each of us have or will have some degree of pain and no one on Earth is excluded from that truth. Paul reminds us, "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." (Romans 8:22)As each of us groan and travail in our pain, there's coming a day when all of us, with our own bundle of infirmities and the agony it brings, will be changed! For the same power that transformed our souls one long ago day, shall also transform our bodies on that long-awaited day. And what a body it shall be!So, hang on my hurting Christian friend. Jesus Christ is coming, and change is coming with Him!