It's in our human condition to dread and resent the hard and bad events that can come in life. I know this to be personally true of myself. In the moment it's like the entire world is coming down, it's as if there's no end to the grief and pain. You find yourself at night asking: will it ever end? Why me? What did I do to deserve this?
And if you're like me it's hard to realize the true reasoning behind such trials...
So this Sunday in church in Sunday school there was a lesson on trials and struggles. So I'm sitting there listening and interacting recollecting some of my more recent trials. One thing the lesson was good at was the fact it allowed an ageless phrase I've heard since I was a child... A phrase heard on the football field, at jobs in the past and out of my fathers mouth, "if it doesn't kill you, it'll only make you stronger..."
We've all heard that saying a million times! But have we ever thought to contemplate and truly think what it actually means?
So ask the question... Have you ever realized for the most part after a trial sometimes it's always followed by a clearly earth shattering lesson or revelation? It's like yeah the moment will be terrible! Like there's no way out but then once the storm ends.... The sun comes out again!
It's like if we don't fall full prisoner to our trials and adversity a lesson shall follow.
For example my car....
To the friends and family who've fought through that trial with me I'm super grateful... But back to the story...
I'm going to be honest I'm the guy who if there's a problem with the car i send it into the dealer. I don't know cars... I've never had to fix a car or anything my dad on the other hand is awesome with cars, but as a boy and a young man as he worked on his cars I'd be doing my own thing... To be honest I regret not picking up on that valuable life knowledge sooner. So anyways; my car was have serious brake problems! I mean the car would lock up and the calipers were like blazing hot to the point that they were red!!!
So over and over for about a month I had to send my car to the shop many many times! I had to take public transit which consisted of the Marc train and the metro to the bus to get to work! I mean it was just insane. It was stressful, I missed some classes, and it was actually expensive including repairs, car payments, and the fare for public transit. It was hard to say the least all this going on as I start a new job.
Well at the end of the trial the struggles got easier. At the last repair after a month the car company finally decided to switch out the entire brake system, for pretty much free! It was so crazy to think I had dodged an extremely costly bullet!
But when it was going I was just so out of it! So pissed off! But it turned out to be a huge blessing! What seemed like such a hard time turned out to be a great turn out!
I mean not all trials end so nicely, but most come with lessons. Life was constructed that way. I look at it like God puts us through these trials to teach us the lessons you can't learn from an earthly instructor.
It's hard to be thankful for those trials. But I think if we put in our heads that these trials are eternal lessons then I believe we'll find ourselves less stressed when we find ourselves in a predicament.
So I'm issuing a challenge... Lets put in our minds to be thankful and look out for the lessons. Yeah I'm not saying be super happy and excited for every bad thing, but remember that God has a plan and he won't give us more than we can handle.
The Artist-
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