I believe that no one can accomplish anything without going through some sort of pain. Nothing great in this world is owned without suffering and sacrifice. Great success is results from huge painful preparation. Pain actually sets the scale of gain. God Himself faced painful offering, His only Son just for the entire world to be saved. Jesus Christ suffered a lot that blood and water came out from His body because of the severe anguish in order for us to gain eternal life. That's the very reason I can agree with the statement, “No pain, no gain.”
Even though our life now may be in pain, but the remainder of it will result in great gains that would define and make us until forever. Some other people think that pain only happens to those bad ones, but in reality, it happens to every person who wants to make and step up into something difference and better in living. We must come to think that nothing is going to give and provide itself for us- we must have to exert much effort and work for it. And if that means going through some pain, it doesn't really matters most, for if you work hard enough, you'll definitely get the best gain out of it. God hasn't given us the life to feel of always in gain sensation, but to learn about gain and respect to pain with accompanied life tests. Greatness and glory do not fall down like soft gentle rain from heaven. Great deeds are rewards of endless and infinite labor in life.
The statement “No sweat, no glory” is closely similar from the first statement I've mentioned above. According to an unfamiliar author from the book I've read, “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through the horror. I can take the next things that come along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Greatness thrives only on sweat, tears and blood. In life, we have so many choices to choose from whether to accept the challenge or decline from it without ever trying at all and will end up in regret.
One of the examples of this is just like if you're quiet unfit at the beginning, it will take a lot of pain and sweat on your part to improve your physical fitness. Sports persons undergo large painful course of preparation to get top position at national level or international level. Of course, literally, they have the constant practice. Within that span of practices is accompanied by sweat and sacrifices. Great scientists, discoverers, inventors, social reformers, political thinkers have worked day and night before they could achieve their ideal.
You can really appreciate the things you received when you know how much effort you spent for them in order for them to be achieved.
Along the years I've been through in my life, I learned so many things. It's amazing to realize that as I grow older years upon years, I become independent but at the same time, I also become more dependent. I'm now in the stage to become more independent than I was before. Independent to be set apart from my parents. I need not to rely upon them because from time to time, they also grow older as I am. I must know how to work for living. On the other side of the coin, I also become more dependent. Not on the people that surrounds me but to God. There are so many complexities in this life I have, that sometimes I can't even trust and rely on my own decisions, plans, capabilities and strengths. I need someone superior and perfect than anybody and that is my God whom I can lean on at all times.
The more I grow, the more complicated the challenges that come my way. I came to the point realizing that I must do my very best that I can do while I could still able to do. It's simply making the best out of what I am having now. Living life to please other people is not living to God's purpose. Sometimes, people are often unreasonable, irrational and self-centered but I must forgive them anyway. In the final analysis, it is between me and God. It is never between me and them. I don't let any situation hinders me from serving God. I always check and evaluate myself so that God will always be the center of everything I do and everything I have. Whatever situation I may face, I count it all as pure joy. All things happen for a reason. There are moments that I can’t understand the way it occurs but God is in control of me.
I can expect few years from now that I am successful in my field of study. I am having a mission works in and out of the country. I lead many people near to Christ. It is my very desire to serve Him passionately using all my resources, abilities and talents. I know that God will bless me according to His glorious riches for the expansion of His Kingdom through me. God blesses people to be a blessing and I want to become a blessing to other people. I can help those people who needed me.
Another thing I’m expecting is, God will give me a family to live with. I mean my own family. I want to be a godly mother to my children and teach them to love God above anyone else. I’m not just a godly mother but also a Christ-like wife to my husband. I will submit and love him the way that God has loved him. Regardless of how many desires I have in my heart, it is always the will of God that prevails. I know that God has prepared something better than what I desire for. Maybe He won’t give me what I desire but He will give me what I deserve. I will let Him work and engineer my future.