Life challenges changes us into who we become.

                       Growing up I thought I knew it all.

As a child growing up we learn a lot about what we are shown through schools and parents but in truth we learn our most needed knowledge and wisdom through our experiences and challenges in life. We think we know it all going into our teenage years but in truth we still know nothing except for the little we have learned up to that point.

  

Life really becomes a challenge at that time because things start happening in us like body and hormone changes which leave us bewildered not knowing what's coming next. But we face it with what we have learned to get us through it and on to the next phase of life where we learn more. There is so much more to life than we realize and yet to have lived. Life really pales compared to what we will become and where we will be in the future.

Had we known back then what we know now, we would not be where we are today because we need what we went through to become who we are today. I am enlightened now to how God knows all and why He allows us to go  through things in life. As the old folk lore is termed "calm seas has never brought forth an experienced Sailor." (unknown Author)

   

God is with us every step of the way and never leaves us nor forsakes us. In my experience in life I can look back and see this but in my younger years I could not because life was still new to me and I had a lot to learn. I thank God for being there and never letting me fall to far and not get up losing not only my life but the redeeming of my soul. I have learned that it is our choice to live it or lose it. God like our parents are there to keep safe inside of boundrys to where we can learn life and become the people we are supposed to be.

Sin took us away from that causing us to lose that safe and innocent boundry but God does keep us there until we are old enough to choose the choice we will make that will decide our future, God is a very protective Parent who wants us with Him. 

See we are created in His image and likeness which means now that each day we become more like Him and eventually we will be with Him in our original nature as is He. Jesus Christ did not jump into Ministry until He had learned lifes challenges and experiences that paved the way for Him to do what He was sent to do. Not mature physically but mentally and spiritually like The Father in heaven who created us.

  

There is an advesary in life who is our tempter who temps us to lose the life God has created for us but we are not allowed to go through more than we can handle. For God knows our weakness and has made a way for us to over come these challenges in life. Each of these challenges  in life is like the process of making a sword that is being made for it's purpose, that it is being created for. It goes through the fire and pounding to shape it and strengthen it so that it will not brake or lose it's strength so that it will fulfill it's purpose. 

  

We know that God has a future for us because of the process we go through to get to Him. These challenges in life we really do not like because of the emotions and pain we go through. It hurts but that hurt goes away and we see how strong and wise we become knowing what we were compared to who we are now and then will be. This life is but a breath of what will be. 

So make the most of this life and become that strong sword for the future that is after this one but it takes Jesus Christ to show us the way. That is why He is called the life, the truth and the way. No one makes it to His Kingdom except through Him.

                                                                       

Please do not go through this life any further without Him because He does make it easier and we can be assured to be that strong sword that we are to be for the future. Receive Him now and live life with Him forever. Just ask Him to forgive you and be your Lord and send His comforter to be your guide in this life to make it easier and true. That's all there is to it. And know that He is faithful and true to His word. He holds His word true even above His own name.

God bless you and keep you. Amen!

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