I’m going to start this Blog with one resounding truth that everyone can agree on. You ready? Here goes. Life is HARD. Ok now that you are all astounded at my ability to see the obvious lets move on.
Have you ever been in a situation where you are given two choices? One choice is easy and more fun, and the second option is hard or scary or both. How many times do we take the easy path? How often do we stay away from anything that may be hard or scary? For me it’s most of the time. I’ve always heard that anything easy won’t be worth having and anything worth having won’t be easy. So how many of us are ok having a life full of things that aren’t worth having?
I have struggled with this for a long time. I have been WEAK and taken the easy route more times than not. I have let things slip through my grasp because it was too hard to hold on. I have let opportunities escape because I knew it was going to be a difficult proposition to work through them. I have often wondered why God would allow life to be so hard, why there would be difficult decisions, and why would he let someone with a desire to be more than mediocre be so weak.
That got me to thinking about what weakness brings about. Weakness brings heart break, dissatisfaction, disappointment, disgust, and pain. These are all feelings that none of us enjoy. No one wants to feel the pain that comes from being weak. So when we get out of our poor pitiful me period we look to change things, to eliminate those feelings, to be strong in the areas that led us down that road. So ultimately weakness brings about strength. We are forced to endure so that we may grow. We are allowed to suffer so we will suffer no more.
I am now in a better place with my weakness I’m not ok with it but I understand it. I know that I am allowed to be weak so that I can be strong. I know that God sometimes drives the giants from our life to allow us safe travels, and other times he puts the giants in our way to force us to grow as people. I’m going to take my weakness and grow from it. How about you?
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