It's Not Always About Rainbows December 7, 2015

¹⁰ For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.  2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV

Joy.  Contentment.  Felicity.  While most Christians would agree that we will not walk around smiling like the Cheshire Cat all the time, we do think that there is to be an omnipresent joy and contentment in our lives.  Today's verse would say otherwise.  

Paul tells his readers that we will experience grief at times.  Joy will be pushed out.  Contentment replaced.  Paul's letter to the church at Corinthians was the cause for godly grief.  
(2 Corinthians 7:8,9 ESV)  But that grief had a purpose.  The sorrow served a greater good.  This grief created an "earnestness", a "zeal", a "longing" in the members of the Corinthian church.  Had the discomfort not been present, the efforts to eradicate that discomfort would not have manifest. 

Change and growth come out of trials and challenges.  Grief can bring about growth.  Do we like it?  No.  Is it necessary?  Yes.