This was something I read at first while going through some challenges. I wasn't satisfied with it at first because it seems to only exist my problem and not proffer a solution to my challenges. It didn't seem to help. I was up on my phone chatting up with a friend and she seem perceive I wasn't okay and asked my if all was alright. I opened up to her and She gave some advice and gave me this scripture:
Then I realised that in this life, we are bound to face hard or trying times but how we view our challenges and how we confront them will determine our joy and victory.
2 Corinthians 4:16 That is why we do not let ourselves become sad about our work. The person that we are on the outside is getting older and less able. But the person that we are on the inside is becoming newer day by day.
17 We have these little troubles that continue only during this time now. But these troubles are preparing something much, much greater for us, which will continue always. As a result of them, we will enjoy something much better always with God, who is so great and so good.
18 So, we do not look at the things that we can see. But instead, we look at the things that we cannot see. The things that we can see are there for only a short time. But the things that we cannot see continue always.
It's of paramount importance that in times of fierce challenges we know that we have the great in and with us . Challenges most of times comes to help us exercise some of our hidden abilities and also to exercise our faith and trust in God. They sometime are the best test of our strength and weakness to enable us assess ourselves and know how to build or develop ourselves.
Jesus has said we should take his yoke upon us and learn from him. I sometime use to think it means to take his yoke of suffering the until I understood he was using the illustration of the yoke that bounds the horse or bull to the chariot
/chart. The direction and energy required to make progress depends on the strength of the horse. Jesus is saying to you and I lean on me I use and strength and wisdom to direct your life to the place of Good success.