When my circumstances or people are working against me I have a tendency to resist them and seek ways to either change what is happening or remove myself, or the antagonists, from the situation.
The Lord, however, is teaching me that my resistance is really my old nature’s way of trying to take control in order to escape the Cross.
The most powerful thing I can do, in every challenging experience, is surrender myself to God and trust Him to guide me.
My ego sees that as weakness or failure and does everything it can to motivate me to action, even if it means getting resentful, bitter or angry.
I pray that the Lord will help me quickly realize, in those threatening conditions, that His strength is made perfect in my weaknesses.