Loss to gain. Defeat to victory. Weeping to joy. Failure to success. Falling to rising. Death to life.
This is the divine pattern of maturity, growth, and progress. Try though we may, we cannot avoid it or reverse it. We may attempt to of course, but there will be no real forward momentum, only a mired existence in the status quo. Not at all the eternal life in God’s kingdom that Jesus promised.
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