Obstacles
If I don't have problems, if I don't have obstacles, if I don't have struggles today, the opportunity to get better tomorrow is not there.
I read something this morning from John Maxwell, and he talked about how it's our resistance that allows us to propel forward.
Think about it.
He said, "the greatest resistance of a boat is the water it sits in. But ,without the resistance of the water, the boat would go nowhere. It's like an eagle soaring through the sky. Its greatest resistance is the air, but yet without that air, if it were in a vacuum, it would fall to the bottom."
We're no different. We're the same. The struggles that we endure and the struggles that we go through today allow us to overcome the challenges that will be there tomorrow.
If you're looking around today and do not see struggles and challenges and difficulties, you're not going to be better tomorrow. And so, sometimes we have to seek that out. Sometimes we have to find those struggles.
I'll be honest, if it's just easy sailing, then it's downhill. A wise man once said, "Everything worthwhile is uphill." That means everything we do is a struggle. Now, that struggle can overcome you, or that struggle can encourage you because you understand just like lifting weights, you have to challenge yourself to grow and get stronger.
The struggle is the challenge that allows you to succeed and accomplish tomorrow.
