Why is life so hard?

Why is life so hard? A question which many have asked often many times in their life. Think about it; "Why is life so hard?"

In today’s world we as people to often shy away from something because it is hard. Maybe we need to re-consider the correlation we have made between something being hard, and it not being worth our time.

Steve Pavlina is one of the world’s well known bloggers. He has over 2 million views on his blogs a month. Seth Godin is a well-known writer and speaker. Both of these amazing people have written many books, spoken to many people and started many one show companies. They accomplish more in a couple months then some accomplish in a year. They are great examples of work. Steve says this about hard work in a post which he titled "Hard Work“:

"Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something “fast and easy” that’s about to come next. The greater your capacity for hard work, the more rewards fall within your grasp. The deeper you can dig, the more treasure you can potentially find…Your life will reach a whole new level when you stop avoiding and fearing hard work and simply surrender to it. Make it your ally instead of your enemy. It’s a potent tool to have on your side."

Seth said this in a post called "Labor Day“

"Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you’d rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And, after you’ve done that, to do it again the next day."

These two leaders have discovered and fed the love of work.

Even during Christ's life some of his disciples left him partly because it was going to be hard. After Christ feeds five thousand with food, him and his disciples leave. Christ leaves to be alone, and his disciples get in a ship to go to the other side of the sea. While Christ’s apostles are on the water a storm comes. Christ walks to them on the water and calms the storms. When they come to the other side some people came up to Christ and ask to be fed because they had heard about Christ feeding all of those people. Christ explains to them how he is the bread of life and testifies of his divinity. "Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard."

Christ’s asks for our all. Work is an amazing sifter of those things which we do need and what we do not. I love to trail run and go hiking in the mountains. When one does this they take the least amount with them as possible to reduce the weight. Work fulfills the same purpose. When one really works they drop, discard, and strip away everything that is access.

God said, "For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." "This is my work." If we want to help the Lord out with his work and glory we must not shy away from hard work but run to it and embrace it. One will never accomplish a dream without work.  When we put our mind to it and allow the Lord to help; together we accomplish a lot more then we could ever do on our own.