Growing Pains

Have you ever experienced growing pains?? For some of us, its been a long time since we have had physical growing pains but its when your legs or sometimes your arms would hurt when you were a child because you were growing. I recently had a conversation with a parent who said their daughter was not sleeping well and waking up crying from what she thought might be growing pains. It was after a conversation I had with a dear friend the other day about things I've been going through, that I realize that I am having spiritual growing pains. Like physical growing pains, spiritual pains hurt...I am being stretched... I feel uncomfortable...I feel sensitive...but the outcome is worth the pain.

Often times when we have great struggles, what comes is that we experience great amounts of growth. We grow in trust, faith, love, confidence, peace, etc. True, i don't like the pain now but I am excited to see the outcome when God creates a much more confident and bold woman of God. You might be going through spiritual growing pains too. Don't get frustrated or give up, just ask God what He might be trying to do in you.

Similarly, I think of the refiner's fire. A fire that hot cannot be pleasant...its gonna hurt. But when you go through the fire and the dross is removed, you are so radiant & beautiful and you reflect Christ even more than before.

So praise God for growing pains and His refiner's fire.