Sometimes, the hardest thing to do is to sit under and bear an uncomfortable situation, especially when there’s an easy out. To stay and bloom where you’re planted in a season of dryness and darkness is difficult but moving forward ahead of God is worse.

Younger me would have chosen to run and not have to deal with the growing pains. Older (and hopefully more mature) me is willing to stay and learn and grow. Not that I’m in that particular season currently, but I have been.

I think Dan Allendar said that until your desire for a changed heart is greater than your cry for relief, you’re never gonna grow up. Until you learn what it means to die daily to self and take up your cross daily, you will always be a shallow, self-centered Christian.

Is it easy? Absolutely not. Is it worth it? Absolutely yes.

You have to decide which is worth more to you.