When Life is Hard

When life is hard--you know, really hard--we often spend all our time pleading, begging, yelling, refusing, and questioning. While none of these things are necessarily unusual, they are missing the ultimate point. When life is hard, when things get ugly, when all hope seems to be lost… that is when we are able to display the superiority of the life lived in God.

It is in those moments of despair, when we question what is happening, when we don’t know what to do, when some trials never…seem…to…end, that we can lean most heavily into God’s promises and truths.

God refines us. Often this refining comes in ways that we can't even see. Should we just try to weather the storm? Or is there something greater in God's vision for these difficulties?

God told us to expect trials—don’t be surprised when they come (they are on purpose). Grow when they come. Find hope when they come.