The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you – depending on how you respond to them. Unfortunately, most people fail to see how God wants to use problems for good in their lives. They react foolishly and resent their problems rather than pausing to consider what benefit they might bring.
Here is one of five ways God wants to use the problems in your life:
1. God uses problems to DIRECT you.
Sometimes God must light a fire under you to get you moving. Problems often point us in a new direction and motivate us to change. Is God trying to get your attention? Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways. (Read Proverbs 20:30)
Change is seldom easy and many times undesired. That is why God sometimes uses our problems to point us in a new direction. If we are following the wrong path, no matter how well we do it or how comfortable it is, we will not get to the right place. That is when a course direction is required. Unless our course becomes hard or uncomfortable, we will tend to stay on it. When we view our problems as opportunities for improvement, they no longer appear as problems but as possibilities for a better way.
Problem solving,
Z gardener
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