ROUGH STUFF OR FUN RUN
Pssst, don't tell anyone, but sometimes God takes us through the rough stuff rather than the fun run. We should no more resist the rough stuff than we do the fun run. If we struggle over which path to take, (or worse) if we choose the "fun run" over the rough stuff, we have a heart problem that needs to be taken care of through death to self.
Fear not. The self life is futile anyway, and the Christ life is the only real life.
Matthew 16:24-26
(24) Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
(25) For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
(26) For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
