How we look at difficulties is crucial. As I’m reading about the life and journeys of Paul, I discover trials are part of the adventure. Paul said, “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22). Hardships are places where our faith can blossom and our priorities focus more clearly on what really matters. By looking at our difficulties through the lens of faith in Christ, we grow in Him. G. K. Chesterton wrote, “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

Pastor Mark Boucher