Hello,
A couple of weeks ago we had an interesting experience at
our house. My son started complaining that his leg was hurting. He hadn't
fallen or done anything – it lasted for a few days, and we believe it was
growing pains. I never really thought that was a real “thing” – but there was
no doubt he was being honest about the pain.
It got me thinking about our walk with God as believers –
there is often pain with the growth. We may not make a bad choice to bring the
pain – it may just be a necessary element of the growth process at the time.
So what? Well, when we encounter pain in our walk we need to
ask the right questions. If we only focus on getting out of the pain as fast as
possible, we may very well miss that growth opportunity. We need to ask what we
can learn and how we are to respond. If we focus on learning and responding, we
can then trust God to bring the right ending/next step for His glory and His purpose.
A passage from Philippians 3:7-11 to encourage us to focus
on Him and keep moving forward:
“But whatever things were gain to me, those things I
have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all
things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ
Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count
them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not
having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that
which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from
God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of
His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed
to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the
dead.” (NASB)
Have a blessed day,
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