“We never know what’s wrong without the pain”
Maybe you’ve heard the song these lyrics are from. Today I was listening to it, and thinking about some conversations I have been having lately. So many people have been saying they just want to be happy, they don’t want to deal with the pain. And I started to wonder... Why do we try to medicate ourselves so much from reality? If there is something wrong with our reality, shouldn’t we face it and try to fix it instead of running and hiding from it? Yet we are so afraid of the process it takes to be made whole. Why is it our natural response to run from anything that causes us pain? Why is it our natural response to find every excuse in the world not to be in uncomfortable situations? Doesn’t it say in James to "consider it pure joy when you face trials"? And in Hebrews it talks about how "no discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful"? In both of those scriptures, what does it follow up with right afterward? The pain is going to develop something in you that is priceless. The struggle is what makes us who we are meant to be. Sometimes, facing the uncomfortable situations is the only way we are ever going to grow. Personally, I want to be known as a woman who is willing to fight through anything to become who God created me to become and really live out His purpose for me.
So, God help us not to run from the pain, help us not to be afraid of it. Let us choose to face it so we can fix it instead of numbing it. And make us who YOU created us to be - whole, free, powerful men and women of God that have the potential to CHANGE this world!
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