Jeremiah 45:5 says that God wants to give us our life as a prize of war. But we only receive a prize of war when it's over, when the battles have been fought and the field is littered with casualties.
War is tough and life seems more difficult than we can handle at times and true growth hurts, it never comes easy. The hardships we encounter will cause one of two things to happen... the bumps, bruises and injury we suffer will harden and become tough. Those layers will desensitize and become calluses that isolate us from those around us.
But Gods plan, the plan that our life is a prize, a life more abundant is callus free. Those same trials don't create a hardened callus but rather form the walls of a chrysalis. A cocoon to initiate change and transformation.
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.1 Peter 5:10,
No matter what's happening, it won't last forever, this too shall pass.
