What Is Learned by Submitting to Challenges?

Challenges always coexist with varying degrees of frustration relative to the intensity of the challenge. In every stage of life frustration plays a major role. Adults are challenged today by changing roles they must master or be left behind.

Women are challenged to obtain and succeed in positions once held by men. Each year more women are accepted at medical schools than are men, and women professors at those schools continue to grow. This trend provides cause for women to celebrate.

If every challenge is accompanied by frustration, how are men responding to the challenge of sharing power with women who desire to use the talents God gave them. Challenges can be greeted with fear or seen as opportunities to grow into the person God intended. 

God intended for both men and women to be receptive to mastering new roles for the purpose of serving him and each other.                      

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If you wander off the road to the right or left, you will hear his voice behind you saying, “Here is the road: Follow it.”

~Isaiah 30:21 Good News Bible

 

Jesus said, “I am the Road [or the Way], also the Truth and the Life.”

~John 14:6 The Message

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What's the Cost for Failing to Comply with God's Purpose?

In the beginning of public education, men held the position of teacher, first for boys and then for girls. As women were accepted into higher levels of education they gradually replaced men as public school teachers. Positions in administration and athletics would come later.

How are men responding to the challenge of women being their employers, supervisors, and colleagues? A world without challenge will never exist, for challenge brought civilization into existence. God’s on-going challenge to men and women today is, “Be fruitful and increase in numbers. Fill the earth and subdue it.” 

Failure to comply with God’s plan eventually creates a breakdown of the ability to function in ways that are blessed by him. The challenge men and women face is to respond to the opportunities God provides. 

God is at work in his world to bring to fruition his goodness and plans.                           

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You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!  

~Isaiah 26:3 New Living Translation

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