Hebrews 5:8

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“though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.”
Hebrews 5:8

Life calls for a lot of lessons learned, and most of them are not easy.  I have found that I learn the most when I go through the hardest times. Trying to do things my own way never worked especially when those things involved disobedience. I tried to short cut my way through things and avoided a lot of conversation of how I was feeling and kept everything in. This lead me to break. My mom has always been a big part in my life and always made sure I was okay. She would know from the second I walked into a room that there was something wrong with me. And I would play it off a lot of the time because I thought I could handle my failures and things I know would disappoint her to myself. I still find myself doing this with God. Not wanting to disappoint Him, but not obeying what He puts on my heart. I want Him to be my Shepard and I want Him to guard my heart. I am tired of playing it off and trying to avoid the next breaking He needs to do in my life in order to grow closer to Him. My application is for the next three days I will go over and reflect on scripture about dying to self.  

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