Do you work out with weights in the gym, and struggle through the last repetition? Ever played organized sports, and had to do drills? Extra running? Sprints? Or in school did you do the same type of math problem over and over?
Why do we do these things that we don’t necessarily enjoy? We do them to improve ourselves so we perform better in the future.
Have you ever thought that God allows us to struggle and suffer some things in life to make us stronger Christians?
The Apostle Paul writes in Romans 5:3 “…we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces character”
We need to look at our struggles and suffering, not as the permanent result God has intended for us, but as an exercise that can make us stronger and more reliant on God in the future.
Dear Lord, we know You love us and know the struggles and suffering we face. Help us endure our sufferings with the knowledge that if we handle them with faith in You, they will help us become stronger and more capable Christians. In Jesus name we pray. Amen
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i have been through many struggles of bad choices i have made..the one that has most i remember and i have to live with everyday ,is losing my children to a foster women to the state of washington .. everyday i have to remember the good and watch them grow up in pictures ..but they are doing well ,all in all it was a good thing because that family had more knowledge of jesus and smarts in schooling to where i know my children are going to succeed in life more in life than as if they were with me ..my struggles has brought me to after many years of tring to numb the pain with drugs ..to k owing god and wanting to know god and taking my day and arranging it around god instead of tring to fit god into my dsily life ..i love god and through it all is my only best friend my everything .thank you god for your son .if not for him where would i be in this life .amen