I'd like to share with you some encouraging thoughts for you. These thoughts mostly apply to believers in Jesus Christ. If you're not a believer in Jesus, God wants to work in you too. Why not let Him?
If pain is making you question God's goodness...
If God was really against you, don't you think He could have made you suffer more by now? God is all-powerful! If He hated us or wanted bad for us, He could have been a lot more effective in bringing pain into our lives! No, God does really love you. Even if you face trials, trust in God, the trials won't last forever.
The pain God allows us is there to alert us to the fact that there is a problem that needs to be dealt with. If we haven't found the problem, pain is a great motivator. Without pain, we would lose many important things - just as lepers lose their extremities because they can't feel the things that are threatening them...
If you wonder why you struggle...
God wants us to be like Jesus. We are predestined to be conformed to the image of God's Son (Romans 8:29). We are far more useful to God if we learn to put on God's strength while we still have enemies to face. When we go to be with the Lord, we will never have to face another enemy, as far as I understand Scripture. Its now that we need strength! But to be strong, we need to draw strength upon the Lord. But there will be a struggle. "We wrestle ... against principalities and powers" (Ephesians 6:12). There's no victory without a fight. But you were born with royal blood of a son of God, born to win. "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4). You have the genetic code from God to be an absolute champion. All you have to do is feed that new life God gave you, and exercise it, by God's grace. That nature has the nature and the potential of God. All things are possible to him who believes (Mark 9:23), but God has given to you a measure of faith (Romans 12:3) ... so use it. Don't listen to the lies of the devil any longer.
Its time to identify with that new man in Christ and not with the weak carnal
man who is a slave to the influences of this world. "As a man thinks in
his hear
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