"Real spiritual maturity is when you stop asking God to change your situation and start asking Him to change you."
Most of our prayers are really just complaints with "Amen" at the end. We tell God how bad the job is and how annoying the people are and we beg Him to fix it. We treat God like a personal assistant whose job is to clear the obstacles out of our path so we can be comfortable.
But comfort is not the goal of the Christian life. Conformity to Christ is the goal. And usually, we become like Christ not when things are easy, but when things are hard.
Real maturity happens when you stop trying to control the wind and you start adjusting your sails. You realize that the storm isn't actually the problem; your fear is the problem. The difficult person isn't the problem; your impatience is the problem. The waiting isn't the problem; your lack of trust is the problem.
When you switch your prayer from "God change it" to "God change me," the panic disappears. Because the situation might stay exactly the same, but you become different. You become stable. You become peaceful. You become unshakeable. And that is a greater miracle than the storm stopping.
...we also glory in our sufferings,
because we know that suffering produces perseverance...
Romans 5:3
Provided by "Divine Insight"