If Jesus is better, why are our lives getting worse?

1. Pain is a GIFT2. Pain is for our GOOD3. Pain is leading us to a GOAL

Hebrews 12:3Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.Hebrews 12:4In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.Hebrews 12:5-6And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”Pain is not a sign of condemnation, it is a sign of confirmation.Hebrews 12:7It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?Discipline = FreedomHebrews 12:8If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

Pain isn’t evidence that he has abandoned you. Pain has evidence that he has adopted you.