I don't think God is testing me.
If he was. I failed. Many times.
I think the trial tests us.
The trial teaches us, and our faith saves us.
I have been having so much come up for me lately.
I feel it is that my spirit has awakened and I am being shown things that are "painful".
I am being shown where my drinking took me, the harm it caused...which is "painful" to recall, yet...I am being shown it for a reason.
I must pay attention to it. Be thankful for what is being shown to me.
So that I don't have to be that person again.
I can remember years ago...hearing Pain is God's way of saying slow down.
Pay attention. I am trying to show you something.
This hurts you for a reason.
Learn from it.
Embrace pain.
Maybe it hurts because it is something that God is trying to show us...to get our attention. To show us an area where we have been wrong, to use pain as a teacher.
Look at pain as an opportunity, to discover one more thing that has to go.
