It will only hurt for a minute.

In reading Job 2 today I found something that really must be considered. Verses 8-10 say:

⁸ Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes. ⁹ His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”
 ¹⁰ But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.

These words come after Satan strikes Job again. After taking everything Job has including his children he now has his health taken from him. In this we still see Job's resolve. Verse 9 is very interesting we don't know much about Mrs. Job but we have to keep in mind that she lost everything as well. Perhaps she was not as prepared as Job was which would be the reason for her response. We just don't know. In verse 10 it is important to note that Job didn't call his wife a foolish women he just said she talked like one. Pretty impressive knowing what he was going through.

However the key words in these verses are at the end of verse 10 when Job said "Should we accept only the good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?" Very wise words. God knows everything that we want, but he also knows everything that we need. We may not consider some of the things we need to very good at all. Remember as a kid having to get a shot? That is not something that I wanted it was painful. But my parents knew it was something that I needed. I still have the image of the nurse her name was Merna (not sure of the spelling) walking into the little room with her hands behind her back. I may have only been 5 or 6 but I wasn't stupid I knew there was a needle behind her back and it was going to hurt. Then she had the nerve to say it will only hurt for a minute.
So when something bad is happening to you it could be either the result of a sinful world, the result of your sin, or a shot to keep something worse from happening to you. Sometimes the bad things we go through are like an immunization they protect us from something that could come later and we will never know in this life what they were. In a sense the things we go through now will only hurt for a minute compared to eternity. Just remember: God not only knows what you want. He knows and gives you what you need.