God bless!
In life the most successful people share a common desire, that desire is to produce. Though from the outside many people may think “they already have so much” but in most of their minds they simply don’t. Is this ambition or desire bad? Anything in extreme can cause problems but the truth is that there is a lesson to be learned through this ambition, that lesson is that we need to appreciate the things in life that produce. There are many producing factors in life and there are also many factors that devour our production. To gain success whether it be physical or spiritual we need to be good managers of our life and put aside the non-producing things and steer towards those that produce. The verse today speaks of a very interesting thing that many of us have: “Suffering”. The verse actually states that “Suffering” produces “Perseverance”. Am I saying we should desire “suffering”? Yes and no. Yes we should desire it because it leads to great rewards but no because we shouldn’t let it lead us to a place of despair. So how do we choose which way to apply it? The only way that we can choose the direction to be led by perseverance is by laboring towards the direction we desire. There is a saying about water, it travels to the places of least resistance. In other words: it goes where nothing tries to stop it. We can’t be like water! As Christians we actually have to do the complete opposite, we have to travel the path of most resistance because when we are able to succeed in that path we will find ourselves on the road to Heaven. There is no “Easy” way to Heaven, just like there is no such thing as “Easy” money or an “Easy” relationship. Anything worth having has to be worked for! Want to be known as a person that perseveres? Then let's suck it up and realize that whatever suffering we are dealing with will only lead us to a place of prosperity.
Taking a deep breath and realizing that there is no devil in hell that will take my JOY away!
Pastor Joell A. Perez
Romans 5:3 “Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;”
