true faith

Every painful encounter that comes our way can be a gift from God because in that time in that event in that trial we change like coal into diamonds. We must force ourselves in those situations, after much patient teaching and prodding and pointing our of truth from God, to laugh and be thankful and rejoice and choose with our will even if the emotion of "want to" is not there keep going to trust God and say ok you are still good. Those moments of hardship are lie boot camp for the Christian because they make us stronger so that when God asks us in those trials to set new boundaries of what we can endure of how far we will step out in faith of what will cause us to doubt God and His goodness, we will have the strength to allow them to be reset further out. The pain in life is what makes us be followers of God. It helps us follow in faith not ruled by emotion but true faith that even when our whole hearts scream out, "You are hurting us God that does not seem to fit with who you told me you are or who i think you to be", we still choose to keep following and trust that we what God told us about Himself and what He promised will come true. We see with faith eyes like Abraham. I also think of Peter who, when Jesus said that His body was to be eaten and His blood drunk and His followers abandoned Him, said "Where shall we go Lord? You have eternal life."