Growing Pains of Adversity
When trials come and try to beat us up we have a choice to make, will we allow it to defeat us or will we grow through it and become stronger? Our adversary the devil is always looking to destroy us as 1 Peter 5:8 states: "Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion , seeking someone to devour" Now as a Christian it is pretty easy (sometimes) to realize who your adversaries are. What is hard is when they come from within your Christian community. I have always been shocked when a fellow Christian thinks it is okay to speak harshly or in mean tones to myself or other's, to go about spreading rumors or gossip. It breaks my heart and if it breaks my heart think of how much more it must break Christ heart. I have asked God to give me a vacation from these trials, but God in His loving kindness wants to see me grow and in order to grow to become more like Him we have to go through things sometimes that we just do