Removing a wisdom tooth. Part II: Reflection on physical pain

I've described my painful experience in my last post (the one below this). Now some reflections on physical pain. (1) I have very low tolerance for physical pain. Even though (thankfully) the pain I experienced was over in less than a day, I was exploding during the entire thing. I take comfort for granted, so whenever I'm in some pain or I'm sick, I have a very difficult time in enduring it. I can see how this could strengthen a person's faith in God, as you could think of anything else but ask help from God. But for me, the experience made me feel so distant from God...I don't know why.

(2) I cannot fully sympathize with another person's suffering. While I'm experiencing the pain, sure my family would comfort me and stuff, but I was like, you're not experiencing this...you have no idea how painful this is, even if you have experienced it before. So on the flip side, I don't think I can be entirely understand and sympathize when another one is in pain. This makes me a bit sad, actually. Of course I want to make you feel better, but I cannot offer anything but empty words, and these don't help much at all.

(3) The pain that Jesus Christ endured on the cross, that is so unfathomable. I really cannot imagine what He went through. It must be infinitely worse than what I've been through, yet I complained the moment it happened. I really need to think more about this and put this into a better perspective in my daily Christian life. Somebody once asked me, if I was told that I could save the human race by going on the cross, wouldn't I be happy to do it? This is coming from a skeptic, of course, but I can definitely answer a resounding "no" to it... What Jesus did is far more than I can imagine and endure. And to do it obediently...that's just impossible for a human.