The Importance Of Adversity

Adversity is an experience of facing major obstacles that have an impact on someone's life. Adversity usually seen as a negative while it is happening but could be seen as a positive later on, even as a learning experience. Going through adversity has helped me explore my faith and strengthen it. Facing these obstacles every single day has been rough on me both mentally and spiritually because I know it is impossible to overcome. One thing that drives me crazy is that my adversity does not only affect myself, but it also weaves its way into the lives of my friends and family, even people I am just passing on the sidewalk.

Sin is the adversity I am writing about. I generally have lived a pretty easy and blessed life, so with not having too many hardships to fight through, this issue really stood out to me. I as a Christian have a goal to strengthen my relationship with God and sin stands in my way every single day of my life. Knowing that, I am very frustrated with myself because I know that I can’t do a thing to help that fact.The verse 4:17 really weighs on me when thinking of these things, “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin”. Sin strengthens itself and weakens itself in different situations. Depending on who I'm with or what I think people expect me to do influence how I make decisions in some odd situations. The devil twists his way into my mind and has his hand into every decision I make. Obviously that is not great when I am actively trying to grow in my faith.

I see this adversity as both a spiritual and physical adversity because it has to deal with both my soul and my relationship with God but also the choices that I make. It runs through my daily life. It seems the more I tr...

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...am going through difficult times. I do know that God sees the purpose and outcome of my trials. All I tend to see is the pain and the problem in the present while God sees my future.

Facing adversity alone can be difficult and scary, having someone helping you like I have God helping me can make all of the difference and help put things into perspective. I do see this adversity as coming from a negative but being able to turn it into a positive and definitely being able to learn from mistakes I have made. Having adversity strike you on a spiritual level can be panicking but using it as a learning experience can in turn make you stronger in the long run. It is somewhat off putting that I know I can never overcome this adversity but I know someone who has and I will be spending a whole lot of time with that person both in my life on earth, and afterwards in Heaven.