Challenges

Wow it's been a while since my last post but it would life got in the way! But here's something that I've been thinking about over the last few days that really came to mind this morning...

Life throws us challenges each and everyday for us to overcome and by the grace of God we do. God gives us the courage to complete tasks that we not like, that we find difficult but at the end of it we always come out stronger. And then when something else comes along or the same thing, we know how to deal with it, we still don't like it and we still find it difficult but because we have already faced it we have some idea of what we're coming up against but God still helps us through it! I hate to say. Ut life will never be a piece of cake and there will be drama in all our lives whether that's good or bad, whether it comes from someone else's life or your own, there is no way out challenges except to go head first and to not shy away from them, because unfortunately you can't hide under the bed covers until it's gone because it won't but like I said, with the grace of God we can come through them!

Now that's ll great but that's not really what I wanted you guys to think about to day but I think it's important to know and to understand as it is something we deal with everyday. What I really wanted to talk about is when other people challenge us, whether that be on what we believe, how we act etc. I know from experience that it's not always that great and even if it's a simple question to get me thinking I still somehow take it as criticism but sometimes we need those close to us to challenge who we are some don't go off and do ridiculous things. It is also healthy for our a beliefs to challenge and to be challenged so then we don't stray into a sort of stagnant state, it also reminds us and helps keep us strong in our faith to be challenged.

I have two friends, both of which I look up to, and both challenge me regularly which I don't always like because 99.9999999999% of the time they are right but by being challenged it helps to give me a different perspective, something I didn't think about. I think it is important to challenge our friends as it can be interesting to see what they believe etc but it can also be scary to challenge them as it can almost seem like we're crossing that line especially if it's something difficult that we challenge on but at the end of the day it is always good to be challenged, even if we don't like it! So my challenge...who are you going to challenge, is there a friend who needs you to challenge them, or is there something you need to challenge yourself in your life?!