Life for a Christian is hard, Jesus warned us that it would be. But that’s life; we live in a broken
world. So there will be heartships, but that’s not the problem. The problem is how they beat us
down, how they define and shape us over time so that we end up with a miserable, hopeless
view of ourselves and our life. How do we escape this? Jesus promises to give us a new life
and everything we need to live it, but He can’t help us unless He’s a real person to us.
