"Wondering" Wednesday

I wonder...

why we are quick to compare our situations with other people's situation to make ourselves feel better. For example, often times, we are dwelling on our own personal struggle and we often hear others say (or ourselves say), "well, at least you are not in so and so's situation". I get that they are trying to make us feel better and even get us to count our blessings. But I wonder why we ever thought life was suppose to be easy, comfortable, and everything we always planned...I guess we can blame it on the American dream? I wonder where we got this huge sense of entitlement.

I'm slowly learning to accept struggle, circumstances, and situations, even in the smallest sense. Here is how I learned that accepting your struggles just may be one of the keys to life:

"And since we are His children, we are His heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God's glory. But if we are to share His glory, we must also share his suffering. Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory He will reveal later to us." Romans 9:17-18

To me, this verse gave me a whole new perspective on why we struggle. Sure, we do make our own wrong choices, or evil has a hand in our lives...but I believe that God will use whatever struggle we are facing to draw us closer to Him, to share in Jesus' suffering...so that ultimately we may share in His glory.