“No discipline seems
pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of
righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”
Hebrews 12:11
Have you ever faced a
season in your life that was a struggle from the moment you got up to the
moment you were able to lay your head back down on your pillow?
How did you handle
that season?
Whether a
relationship gone bad, a financial struggle,
a job that wears you
down and out,
Did you pray for the
season to end or did you embrace it?
“Embrace it?”
“I’m not a glutton
for punishment!”
No, neither am I.
But it is during
those difficult seasons that our greatest opportunity for growth exists.
When life is a breeze
and void of any challenges we can easily
‘zip’ through it like
a child on a water slide.
All pleasure and fun
but no growth!
The writer of Hebrews
addressed this same issue some 2,000 years ago (yes, the important things in
life have remained the same).
He challenges us even
today to allow discipline to train us.
Do not run from it.
In a broad sense
seasons of difficulty can be seen as times of discipline, opportunities for
growth.
If you allow it.
Will you?
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