09/12/2025
“The one who wears the shoe is the one who knows exactly where it pains.”
This timeless adage reminds us that no one fully understands the weight of another person’s burden. Pain expresses itself differently in every heart, and when it meets the presence of God, it often finds its own voice, posture, and language.
In Scripture, when Hannah poured out her soul before the Lord, her lips moved but no words came out. The depth of her anguish was too heavy for ordinary expression. Yet instead of understanding her pain, Eli the priest assumed she was drunk. He saw her posture, but he didn’t see her battle. He noticed her movement, but he didn’t feel her tears. Only God understood the language of her silent cry.
Even Jesus, our Savior, once prayed in such agony that His sweat became as drops of blood That moment in Gethsemane was not orderly, calm, or graceful. It was raw, intense, and deeply emotional. Heaven recognized it as prayer; men might have misunderstood it as weakness.
This is why mocking and judging people’s posture of prayer is not just insensitive it is deeply ignorant. The church is not a gallery for spectators; it is an hospital where wounded hearts come limping, crawling, whispering, shouting, kneeling, or lying flat before their Father. The magnitude of wounds differs:
Some come bleeding in silence.
Some come trembling in sorrow.
Some come shouting because their pain has found a voice.
Some come dancing because their healing has begun.
And each one has a right to speak to God in the only way their soul knows how.
So when you see someone pray in a posture you don’t understand don’t mock.
You don’t know the demons they are fighting.
You don’t know the mountains they are climbing.
You don’t know the storms they survived just to stand in that church today.
You don’t know the chapter of their story they are currently living through.
Let every man and woman be free to communicate with their Father without the fear of human judgment. Heaven listens beyond posture. God hears beyond gestures.
And in His presence, every cry has meaning and every posture has a story
May we become a church where compassion replaces criticism, and where understanding replaces mockery, because at the feet of the Father, we all come as patients seeking healing.