Understanding Pain

I want to focus. I want to serve Him. I want to work hard... but where the rubber meets the road, there's no traction.

"For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak!"
~Matt 26:41b

The body is weak! The body is afraid of the pain. Our mind wants to grow, but the body flees from the trials and pain needed of such growth. In order to grow, we need to be willing to endure these pains.

How?

By God's promise. He is shaping our lives and our characters, into someone who He intended us to me. In His image, in His likeness. And of course the promise to spend eternity with Him. What's a greater promise than that?

So, are we willing to endure this temporary pain for the promise of something great. Think about that next time when you walk through the valleys of life.