IT IS NATURAL to want to minimize or relieve the pain and move towards pleasure or comfort in our life. It is natural to want to remove ourselves from the "pits" of pain. However, allowing this desire to be FIRST in our life actually places our desire to KNOW GOD second. This can be very subtle or very obvious in our life. The subtleness can often be the most dangerous as we often fool ourselves missing the lesson, the refining, that may need to take place in our life. It may move us towards God but only to relieve the pain and bring us pleasure and/or relief. Instead of "learning to be content whatever the circumstances . . . whether living in plenty or want" we may come to God with a certain posture of demandingness. Instead of abandoning ourselves to Him we demand from Him. It is about US. It becomes SELF-CENTERED not God-centered.
So, WHAT TO DO? Hmmm. . . hard to answer but all I can think of at this moment is to "dance" or "sit" with God wherever you may be. Whether "rain" or "sunshine" we can choose to abandon ourselves to HIS unfathomable love for us. It is in this place, with DEMANDS OFF, that we somehow begin to feel a friendship like no other, a love so mysterious it has us wanting more, and with that we find ourselves desiring that MOST. It becomes less about the present and more about the present moment of being with our Creator. Yes, the pain may still hurt, the "rain" may still fall, but we know we will be alright because we are NOT ALONE. We learn what the apostle Paul learned. . . . "how to get along happily whether I have much or little." (Philippians 4:11)
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