Pain and Growth

Wednesday, on this blog, we talked about finding purpose in our pain. Today I want you to consider the ways God has helped your grow to be more like Jesus…by using pain in your life.

We sure aren’t excited when we get that call from the doctor, or our spouse says they don’t love us anymore, or the boss says we’re not needed…but these kinds of painful moments can lead to breakthrough kinds of growth.

Suffering is just one of the ways God helps form and mature us…but it IS a way.

As you look back over the last year, take a moment and thank God for bringing you through a difficult situation…and consider how you grew from it.

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. ”  (James 1:2-4 NIV)