Life is filled with pressures. Some even feel as if they may crush us. Pressure serves a purpose.

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

As a butterfly emerges from a cacoon, removing the pressure prevents development. The same is true with a chick escaping an egg.

Our development requires pressure. However, the pressure we face is not always based on the size of external factors.

Size does not equal weight. Some ministries look flashing and grandiose but there is no weight of God's glory within them.

When you carry real weight, it takes time to gain momentum, and you must be aware of how you carry the load so you do not lose the load.

Romans 8: 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

I was at a tunnel in Trammel, VA. On this morning, you can see the other end of the tunnel. This tunnel is one of the longest tunnels on the CSX rail system. When this tunnel was constructed, the engineer over this project started from both sides of the mountain and tunneled towards each other. The day before the tunnel was completed, he convinced himself he had missed the mark. He shot and killed himself.

The next day they broke through, and the tunnel was perfectly straight. It was only 3/8 of an inch off.

Some days we can’t see the end of the tunnel. But we have hope that if we keep pressing towards the promise, God will line everything up for our good.

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