God is more concerned about with your character than with
you comfort
This is something that is evident throughout the Bible and
is something that God is repeatedly bringing to my attention.
In one of the Narnia books by CS Lewis, one of the children
asks whether Aslan, the Lion, is safe. The response is something I will never
forget when thinking about how God interacts with us. The response is
that 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good
Following God is not really a "safe" thing to do.
And those who follow him don't always end up in the most comfortable places.
People have ended up in a den of lions, in terrible storms, in the stomach of a
whale ... You get the idea.
God is calling us to step up and sometimes stepping up means
stepping into situations which we are not comfortable with. God is going to
stretch us. It's gonna hurt.We need to embrace the situations. This is because
it is these storms God is using to teach us. God just doesn't give us the gift
of Patience, he puts us in situations where we have to develop patience.
Instead of running away we need to be asking how can i be
growing? We need to embrace these storms.
We don't go through these trials on our own. Time and time
again, God proves that he is by your side and all you have to do is fix your
eyes on him and everything else will fade into the background...
Go on, embrace it and you'll never know what God will teach
you
