One of the most depressing things that I hear people say so often is they'll say,

I just don't see the purpose. What's the point? It might be in their marriage, it might be in

their finances. It might be spiritually when it comes to the church, they'll say, what's the purpose?

I just don't see the purpose. I'm exhausted. Why should I keep trying? Why do I try to do what's

right when it doesn't seem to make any difference at all? It just doesn't seem to matter. I don't see

the purpose. There is a reason. I've heard it said that people hate pain. I wonder if I ask you guys,

do you hate pain? How many of you say I hate pain? I think most people would say I hate pain. If

that's you, just go ahead and type it in. I hate pain. I'm going to argue, though, that that's not

completely accurate. It's my opinion that people don't hate pain. What they hate is they hate pain

without a purpose. People hate pain when there's no reason they see a tattoo to the pain. For example,

if something bad happens and they don't see a reason, there's a car wreck and someone gets hurt or

you test positive for COVID-19 or you lose your job and you wonder, God, where are you in this? I

don't see a reason. What's the purpose, God? I'm trying to do what's right. I'm a good person and

I try to help people, but I just don't see the point. I would argue that people don't hate pain

when they hate is pain without a purpose. Because the truth is people can endure a lot of pain.

If there's a purpose, this is kind of crazy to me, but some people will actually pay money to experience pain

as long as there's a purpose. For example, I know some people that will pay good money to run an

marathon. Now, I've never run an marathon before, but in my mind, I imagine about mile three,

it starts to get painful. Then there's mile four, five, six, seven, eight, I'm a little

little at 26. And people will pay to run an marathon even though it's painful because the pay off,

the satisfaction, the fulfillment, the sense of accomplishment is worth the pain. I have some

friends who enjoy CrossFit. I did CrossFit one time, four thousand push ups, four thousand

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