Formative times in the desert

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: Pain and sadness can prepare us to see the positive aspects of life and turn our attention to eternal things. The Bible shows how God uses sufferings and brokenness to prepare us for deeper understanding and growth. Our character, especially our heart, can either attract or take away the blessing of God. When our heart is tender and willing towards spiritual things, God is willing to favor and bless us. We should continually ask God to examine and perfect our hearts and personalities. Jabes's sad formation in childhood prepared him for a critical moment when he dared to conceive something different and pray to God for a better life. His prayer contains great spiritual values and a way for us to pray and turn to God.

Pain and sadness can create in us attitudes that, interestingly, or destroy us on the one hand and incapacitate us, but on the other hand they can also prepare us to see the positive aspects of life, to see spiritual things, not to get into the vanity and superficiality of youth and childhood, and to turn our attention to eternal things.

That is what the Scripture says, that many times God uses the sufferings, the brokennesses, the pain to prepare us to think in a more real way about the positive things in life.

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