Are you just surviving - or growing?

Friend.

I want to ask you something gently this morning.

Are you trying to survive your current season, or are you open to being changed by it?

There’s a huge difference between the two. Survival is about getting to the other side in one piece. Growth is about arriving on the other side more like Jesus than when you started.

Romans 8:28 is one of those verses we quote quickly and understand slowly. It doesn’t promise that every circumstance is good. It promises something better. It promises that God is always at work in us, weaving even our hardest chapters into something meaningful.

I’ve noticed this over 14 years of ministry. The people with the deepest faith are rarely the ones who had the easiest lives. They are the ones who let God do something in them through the pain, not just around it.

So here is the question I am sitting with this week: What if my current struggle is not a problem to escape, but a classroom I am being invited into?

That reframes everything. It doesn’t make the pain smaller. But it does make it purposeful.

Tonight, before you fall asleep, try asking God one simple question: “What do you want me to learn through this season?” Then just listen. You might be surprised what he says.

Today’s full 5-minute devotional unpacks this further, including what persecuted believers around the world can teach us about growing through fire.

With you in it.

Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/when-life-feels-dark?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true