Dealing Biblically with physical pain on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

This week on the podcast I have with me, Manuel Herrera. He's an ACBC certified counselor,

and he's a part of the Spanish biblical counseling ministry at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley,

California. He also graduated from medical school in Mexico, managed to becoming a fast friend of mine.

We've enjoyed some time together teaching in Argentina.

It was a wonderful time together.

And I'm really looking forward to our time today talking about this issue of physical pain.

And this is a part, I think, that sometimes we assume maybe the Bible doesn't speak directly to or speak about. We have a

tendency to separate spiritual things from physical things. But it's interesting to see what the

Bible says about these things. And so we're going to talk to a physician, one who has been trained

medically to help us sort of think through this. I've also been trained in theological education

as well. So those two worlds converging and I think manna can help us here. So, mani, let's start

with this question. How does the human body produce or how do we feel pain? Well, this is a very good

question. And I would like to start saying that pain is a protective mechanism.

We experience some kind of pain all the time in our lives.

If we sit for a long time in a certain position, the pressure can cause some tissue destruction

of the skin, instead of obstructing their normal blood flow.

So that uncomfortable or painful sensation forces us to change position.

And the way in which God designed our body in relation to pain

is very interesting and certainly exalt his creator character.

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