Don’t be afraid of the challenges that come your way. They serve a purpose. They come because you’re ready to meet them.
When viewed rightly, they take you to a better spiritual and physical place. They improve you. They cause you to let go of limited beliefs and to embrace wider spiritual views. They make you a better person and bring you closer to God.
“We must have trials and self-denials, as well as joys and victories, until all error is destroyed.”
~ Mary Baker Eddy
“And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.”
~ Jesus Christ
Thank you, Evan. This is very helpful to me. I have often been told in the past by Christian Scientists that if I thought better thoughts I wouldn’t have this problem/challenge and that problem/challenge. And there came guilt, shame, fear, self-issues.
Viewing challenges from what you stated in this blog–a more enlightened or uplifted standpoint–one would naturally feel freer in meeting challeneges, more courageous in facing them, and have more hope and expectancy. It takes away the miserable sinner label and puts one on an upward path in recognizing who one is as God’s image and likeness, loved, guided, and protected.
And for this I am very grateful.
Thank you so much, Evan. I really needed this reminder. We can be like David and run to Goliath without fear or hesitancy. I/we have the understanding to meet each challenge. The truth is to be practiced, and I’m learning not to fear the challenges. Thanks again.
Thank you! This is what I needed to read and be reminded of this morning!
Yesterday I asked to be removed from an assignment I had accepted because I did not feel comfortable with the challenge it presented. It did not seem like a right activity for me to continue with. I wish I could have stayed with it, but I truly feel it was right to be removed from it. I hope decisions like that can be seen as divinely directed also.
Regarding Derra’s comment, my C.S. teacher told us that somewhere Mrs. Eddy said (believe it was Mrs. Eddy) that she worried about people who didn’t have challenges because it suggested they weren’t doing their work, weren’t progressing spiritually, i.e. facing down the limited beliefs of life in matter.
Sancy