[Ep 171] Temptation, Testing, or Fallen World? How to Respond When Life Gets Hard

I don't know what it is, but life has just felt… hard. People misunderstanding one another. Feelings getting hurt. Work to do. Family to care for. Trying to balance it all while also cleaning the house and completing other mundane but necessary tasks. All piled on top of one another and it's hard not to wonder if something deeper is going on. Is this what spiritual warfare looks like in 21st century America? Is the enemy trying to just wear us out with all the compounded grief and piled-up hardships that we can never escape from? Or is God trying to test us, refine us in this season? Is there something in us that needs to be removed, and He is using this situation to do a spiritual surgery within us? What do we do in the face of hardship and trial? How does God want us to respond? That's what we're going to talk about on today's episode. I want to review some of the common reasons we experience hard times in this life and then share with you how I believe God is calling us to respond to each of them. Kari   RELATED EPISODES: ·       Episode 164: 3 Key Lessons for Journaling in Difficult Seasons ·       Episode 103: 6 Strategies to Manage Overwhelm, Stress, and Change ·       Episode 108: Just Because Something's Hard Doesn't Mean It's Wrong ______ >> Free Journaling Workshop: 3 ways to encounter God on the pages of your journal http://lovedoesthat.org/journalingworkshop  >> Journal Coaching: A 1:1 call to talk about journaling http://lovedoesthat.org/coaching  >> Journal Gently: An 8-week grief and trauma journaling program http://lovedoesthat.org/journalgently >> Speaking http://lovedoesthat.org/speaking   Music by DappyTKeys