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Think about the amount of pressure required to transform coal into a diamond. What would be the human counterpoint of that necessity for pressure? How can pressure affect us?
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Pressure helps us grow, but it can also break us. Having child-like faith, I think, during the pressure is what will help us to grow closer to God.
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I think like many people said in the lesson, death can often lead people to the edge of their limit. We think of people as indestructible when it comes to death. We think are parents will live forever. We can’t imagine anything happening to them as a young kid. However, if that occurred, you would be shaken to the core. At that point, the worldview that has been instilled deep into your heart will reveal itself. Your reactions will tell a lot about what you believe. As a youth group leader, one of our students passed away due to complications with the flu. Everyone reacted in different ways, but what affected me the most was the way her parents leaned into the Lord and used it as an opportunity to preach the gospel to friends and family.
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The human counterpoint is emotion and knowledge. This includes our relationship with Jesus. Of course the unbeliever is left to temporal/secular perspectives.
We are to understand that grief/pain my stay with us for a lengthy period of time. Pressure may lead to anger, bitterness, isolation/loneliness and a critical spirit.
Pressure can also develop our spirit into a closer walk with God and a more gentle spirit for those around us. -
Lose of a loved one, lose of income would build that type of pressure in ones life. Pressure reveals who we are as individuals and the choses we make when the pressure comes.
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Pressure can have an extremely negative or an extremely positive affect on us. How a human responds to pressure is going to depend on the human and the kind of pressure. Things that pressure, or challenge, us to work harder, be more faithful, and grow in a positive manner can have a tremendously positive impact. However, the wrong kind of pressure can also destroy a person.
