Christian Hardship

The most satisifying accomplishments in life are ones that required hard work and overcoming difficult struggles.
If you’re a Christian, God will place extra struggles in your life.


God will discipline you to go in a certain direction and even Jesus said you must deny selfishness and carry a cross,which is something you will greatly dislike, and follow Him . . . everyday. Such truths can make one bitter. Bitterness and other selfish ways must be prayed about and overcome. Patience and discipline must be learned.
SUFFERINGS arising from anxiety,
in which the soul adds, to the cross imposed by the hand of God,
an agitated resistance, and a sort of unwillingness to suffer,
–such troubles arise only because we live to ourselves.
A cross wholly inflicted by God, and fully accepted without any uneasy hesitation,
is full of peace as well as of pain.
On the contrary, a cross not fully and simply accepted,
but resisted by the love of self, even slightly, is a double cross;
it is even more a cross, owing to this useless resistance,
than through the pain it necessarily entails.
FRANCOIS DE LA MOTHE F?NELON
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