Mark Batterson's post today is spot-on. Some bullets:
- If you allow the challenging situations to build emotional endurance, you'll be prepared for even bigger challenges. If I'm going to do bigger and better things for God, then I'm going to need more emotional endurance.
- What I'm getting at is this: God wants to sanctify your emotions. He wants to build emotional endurance. And that generally involves high levels of stress or criticism or fear or discouragement. But if you grow through those circumstances then you'll become a stronger person emotionally.
When there's no way around it and you have to go through it... "God, give us thick skin and a soft heart."
Kem, been reading your blog for a while and really enjoy it. I'm a new pastor's wife at a plant church and had a really rough day today- full of criticism, as a matter of fact, and your blog was very encouraging to me this evening just as I needed it. Thanks for all the great info and for letting God use you.
Posted by: angie | Jan 26, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Kem, been reading your blog for a while and really enjoy it. I'm a new pastor's wife at a plant church and had a really rough day today- full of criticism, as a matter of fact, and your blog was very encouraging to me this evening just as I needed it. Thanks for all the great info and for letting God use you.
Posted by: angie | Jan 26, 2009 at 12:40 AM
"If you're going through hell, keep going." -Winston Churchill
Posted by: Melisa Johnson | Jan 25, 2009 at 12:34 AM
This is true info - but I find that even though I find myself building "Emotional Endurance" as much as possible, it's so easy to lose focus on why you're even challenging yourself in these situations - Keep your eyes fixed on Christ!
Posted by: Aaron Asay | Jan 25, 2009 at 12:13 AM