TRIALS AND TRAILS

Two elements of life we can be assured will never stop being part of life. Regardless of our journey and direction we can not avoid this reality.

Now trails naturally can be pleasant or harsh. They can be full of lush scenery or a desert. But we can be sure that the trip is not going to be halted as long as we have breath.

But the trails don't always carry obvious trials. They are there, but in the midst of somewhere scenic might be harder to notice.

However, the trial at times has to do with one that challenges our values. And with prosperity and blessings come that can be as corrupting as anything else.

Only because it feels so good we don't think anything of it. We just treat it as a blessing and no reason to question.

Why we might even think this is all some kind of reward. The whole time never even suspecting it is a test.

This is all part of the sad part of life where our mind translates reality according to our own prejudices. It is so easy to excuse or rationalize our condition to fit our needs.

That doesn't make it true and without getting to the core of the reality we can never truly appreciate what the nature of the trial happens to be about. This really is so common a problem in life.

Following the Lord hardly makes that any easier. We just have more reasons to give a spiritual twist.

And that is where we can stumble the most. For if we feel that the Lord is somehow condoning our condition then we completely will feel reasons to look at it as a reward.

Which again keeps us from seeing how it is being done to test our reaction. So many truly fail.

It is sad how we can be so predictable. We translate good times as blessings and bad times as punishment.

All of which in no way allows for the truth. That on any trail there will be trials. Just a matter no forgetting this reality.

To never let it prevent us from seeing clearly. Or allowing our heats to follow where God leads.

This is the challenge most of us, never losing sight of the Lord's face.