Hearing God's voice, but more like listening

The devo from May 8th REALLY stuck out to me! As a very strong willed opinionated person, I have a tendency to justify my actions or plans (with my parents in particular) and think my way is right. When reading this I really understood confrontation in the same way. I looked back on times in my life where I really felt God telling me to give up on a habit, or sin that I justified as "not that bad". In these times, it took me a long time to acknowledge the confrontation that God was stirring within me, but when I submitted to His authority in my life our relationship was once again able to grow! The reality of the idea that "the majority of our world would rather avoid the reward of pursuing Christ with their lives because His path is sometimes agonizing" was really obvious to me. Growing up in the church I have seen this a lot. Students come to camps, make a decision to change only returning home to give up on their commitment because of the agonizing temptations that allure them. As we continue to face these temptations our selves I pray we can continue to fight the good fight, knowing our reward is in Him alone, and I also pray for each of the students coming to Sonshine this summer and that as they make commitments they will be able to stand firm in them as well, no matter how difficult God's call for them may be! <3