dis⋅tress (dictionary.com)
–noun
1.
great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
Distress that drives us to God = All gain?!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading 2 Corinthians today as I was thinking/praying about some of my own anxieties. This passage holds such good news. Paul is addressing one of the churches here, but I think its ok to insert our own distressed situation into the passage:
9You let the distress bring you to God, not drive you from him. The result was all gain, no loss.
10Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets.
11-13And now, isn't it wonderful all the ways in which this distress has goaded you closer to God? You're more alive, more concerned, more sensitive, more reverent, more human, more passionate, more responsible (2 Cor 7, The Message)”
Great Worker amidst distress, continue to develop life, concern, sensitivity, reverence, humanness, passion, & responsibility within us.
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