*Endure*
As I was alphabetizing my soup cans this morning, I was thinking about how it seems like the things I like most in life are the most painful. Opening my heart to a man is wonderful, but if I am attracted to him and it is not mutual, then it is remarkably painful. Dying to the flesh is unexplicably painful! I love to run on a track or through a forest and even this requires some amount of suffering.
The world says, “Do what feels good” and Jesus says, “Endure it for the sake of Love”. Completely contradictory. The comfort that this world offers, like say sitting on a couch, only seems comfortable. Driving with a hotboiled egg in each of my shirt pockets on the way to school in the winter because I do not have a heater in my car merely appears to be a comfort. I am finding that Real comfort, which takes much pain and longsuffering, is found in knowing Christ is completely in control of everything. Resting in Him and remaining in His Love is really the comfort that appeals to me and attracts me like no other. Thank you, Jesus, for enduring the cross. Help us endure and overcome that we may know the vastness of Christ.