August
Father, this trial is hard and I want it to end. I've prayed for relief, strategized for escape, begged you to make it stop. I don't understand why you're allowing this to continue when you have power to end it. It feels meaningless, purposeless, just random suffering that serves no good e
August
Nobody enjoys suffering. Pain hurts, loss wounds, difficulty exhausts. When life becomes hard, the natural response is resistance - fix it, escape it, numb it, anything to make it stop. We assume difficulty is obstacle to flourishing, interruption of God's blessing, evidence that something
August
Consider it pure joy when you face trials, because you know that testing produces perseverance. Not joy that trials feel good, but joy that I'm using them to develop what you need for what's ahead. The difficulty isn't meaningless. I'm producing something through it you can't get any other