The struggle is real!
Life is full of problems. No matter how good we have it, trouble comes looking for us. Even if we don’t go looking and mind our own business, trouble finds us. I’ve wondered my whole life why we have to have so many problems. It is like trouble was handed down to every generation in succession.
We all ask the same questions at some point in our lives: Why me? But it is not only us. Every day, someone has a problem dropping in on them. None of us are unique to problems in this life. Most of us spend time managing or taking some Ls from the problems we face in our days. A lot of us struggle just to see the brighter side of anything.
But let me share a light with you. Having problems isn’t always a bad thing. The best things tend to come from our struggles, if we’re willing to change our minds. That is the bright side of the life we live. Most of what we have learned about problem-solving is wrong, but we can’t understand it until we understand life.
When we change our minds, we can come to understand that a problem is an opportunity to learn. Trouble doesn’t have to destroy the things we have going on. Every day good people get into trouble. For some, most of the time, they are not the ones bringing trouble on themselves. Trouble just seems to find us. Sometimes it is other people’s problems that drag them into circumstances.
We can learn a lot more from our struggles than we can from times we’re at ease. While we won’t learn lessons from every issue we have, what we learn from those that do is valuable when facing life.
Whether you believe in God or not, the lessons we can glean from trials can prepare us to deal with future problems or aid others. We all face the same problems in some way. We all struggle the same way. In some cases, we all panic or stress about what we’re facing.
Being a believer in Jesus Christ, however, we have the advantage of being able to hear God’s counsel for life. The Bible tells us plainly that the righteous (those who believe in Jesus) fall into various troubles. We struggle different though, because we know that God will deliver us out of our troubles when He’s ready.
That doesn’t always mean the situations are going to change. Instead, the Bible advises in Proverbs 16 verse 3, “Submit your works to the Lord, and let your thoughts be established”. The people who truly believe in God are given a new way of thinking. Those who follow the Lord’s ways as our hearts mature, study the Bible and apply the wisdom of God in everything we face, when we remember to anyway; I still have a few bleeps, I can’t mention, at times.
One of those things is that we think differently about problems as they are opportunities to learn to outlast problems or allow the Lord to shape our thoughts in His word, the Bible. The people who take the time to develop patience learn to take the problems and reshape them into opportunities.
On the other side, when God does not pull us out of problems, it strengthens our resolve to act when we are able. We pay attention to how the Lord leads us in those times and apply the things God prepares for us in those times. If we fail, we count on the Lord. If we die, we will wait for the Lord to call us up from the grave to live forever with Him at the set time.
We can all learn to use patience to our advantage now, though. Using patience is a lot like a sportsman. The win may not always seem likely, so we hold and keep holding and looking at the problem, not to think about it, but to understand what the source of the problem is and to see what we can learn as we face the pressure.
What I have learned over the course of my quiet life is that when we become used to being patient, we can also learn to act on every bit of information we gather. That means using patience in a situation where everything seems hopeless, so I can use the same situation to mature.
The Bible tells us that all things work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose. The power of believing in Jesus is manifest in allowing us to grow in life, under pressure, because the wisdom of the Lord is so great that He can use our struggles as a lab or theory class.
When He doesn’t pull us out, those who are patient can then learn to pay attention and so learn how to be strengthened in trusting the Lord. In doing so, we understand what it means when King David says, “it is the Lord who trains my fingers for battle”.
To put it bluntly, a man who comes to know the Lord, comes to know who he is and who His creator is. We also come to know what the Lord has said He will do for us and with us in the current ages we will live in; That is, in every generation, including today’s and the younger folk now adulting.
People who turn to God and study the Bible to understand and to be taught by Jesus Christ, understand things that entire nations will never understand. Being guided by the Lord allows us to see and understand things non-believers will never see; like the world non-believers call dimensions.
But problems faced in patience can yield infinite possibilities, because God, the Lord, has said, “nothing will be impossible to the one who believes”. When people who believe in Jesus Christ are given the understanding of that phrase. Problems begin to shrink and even take a moment to think if it wants some of us. When we can understand problems from a spiritual perspective in Yeshuah (Jesus), we begin to learn how to use problems correctly, because God has said through the Prophet, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper”.
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