God uses problems to CORRECT you.
Some lessons we learn only through pain and failure. It’s likely that as a child your parents told you not to touch a hot stove. But you probably learned by being burned. Sometimes we only learn the value of something – health, money, a relationship – by losing it. It was the best thing that could have happened to me, for it taught me to pay attention to Your laws. (Read Psalm 119:71-72)
As humans, we tend to do that which we want to do unless doing so causes pain, discomfort or some other negative result. When we are engaging in activity that is bad for us, or takes us away from God, we will continue to do so unless the pain is greater than the pleasure we receive.
It is only when undesirable behavior causes us problems, that we begin to change that behavior. It is said that there is no learning unless it changes our behavior. So, when a course of behavior, thinking or feeling is accompanied by problems that seem to increase or worsen, it is a signal from God that a course correction is due.
Those who correct course in those circumstances are the ones who escape the storms. They survive and make it to port. Those who continue to sail into the storm do not. That is what a loving God would do to save those he created, so they can join him in the home port, Eden.
Clear sailing,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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