Physical pain effects us in so many ways.  It is more then what we endure physically, it trickles into other aspects of our lives because we require the use of our physical body to do the tasks of every day life.  Even the simplest things can become difficult when our bodies do not agree with what we may want to accomplish.  Physical trials of many kinds can often seem to go on for the longest in our path.  Some of us have physical trials that last weeks, months, years, or all of our lives.  We are still Gods workmanship (Eph 2:10 ), and God is still going to use the situation we are in to mold us into the person He wants us to be.  The physical trial we are in is a result of the fact that we are in our physical state.  A body that can become broken, battered, and bruised.

It should not come as a surprise however that our bodies go through physical trials, because our bodies are imperfect. They are natural, weak, and an perishable creation.  We know this from 1 Corinthians 15 (1Cor 15:42-44 ).  From that same passage we also learn that there is a spiritual body.  In stark contrast to our physical bodies our spiritual body is going to be imperishable, raised in glory and power!  What hope that gives us in physical trial.  The promise that it truly is only temporary, no matter the length here on earth.  We know this to be true because our fleshly bodies will be changed before we inherit the kingdom of God, because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor 15:50 ).  What a powerful promise of God to remember, that no matter our physical condition, it will not last forever because we will be changed before we inherit eternity.  We will be imperishable.

We must also remember that we are being renewed here on earth, molded on Gods anvil, changed into the image of God as we run the race He has laid before us.  He is using the very circumstance we are in to make us into the person He desires us to be while we are here on earth.  Remembering that and Gods promise, and it becomes much easier to see Gods plan, rather than mans circumstances.

"For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.  For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 Cor. 4:17-18