Sometimes we preach Christianity as self-help: once someone becomes a Christian, their life suddenly makes sense and all of their problems go away. While this sounds nice, it simply isn’t true.
I always thought that one day in my walk as a Christian, I will have somehow achieved enlightenment and have “arrived.” I thought I would figure everything out, stop sinning.
Some days I get tired of constantly having to battle with the powers of darkness that try to attack my identity in God, steal my joy, and cause me to doubt all that God is teaching me.
The truth is that as Christians, we are called to daily take up our cross, die to ourselves, and wage war with the enemy. If a shark stops swimming, it will die. I think that is how the Christian walk is.
God wants us to be content in whatever circumstance, but he does not want us to be stagnate. He hates comfort zones because he wants our only security to be in Him. He is constantly calling us to new and unfamiliar things. He wants us to grow out of one thing and into something new.
As a Christian I will never be done learning and growing, and while this is draining at times, the fact that I don’t have everything figured out gives me reason to keep pursuing more of God.
