Hmmm.... · REAL women

Hmmm....

I was listening to a very thought-provoking podcast today. They were talking about how we often pray for safety, health, and for God to generally make our challenges more manageable for us. How, as Christians, we expect God to smooth out our lives. If we run into obstacles or hard times, we think we've somehow gone astray from God's will for us. Yet when I think about the times that I've drawn closest to God and developed most in my relationship with Him and with others, it's been during the hardest times of my life. This is also a common theme in the Bible. Job, Joseph, David, the Israelites in the desert, the apostles... over and over again God brought those who He had assignments for through dark times. He used these times to develop in them the specific character, skills, relations, etc., that they would need to fulfill His will. So...one of the questions that was asked in this podcast was why would we pray for God to make our lives easier if it's primarily through hard times and struggle that we experience growth? They made the argument that this is like asking God to keep us underdeveloped, unprepared, and immature. What are your thoughts on this?

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