"Why So Hard?"

[Joey Porter]

hillsbororiver said: "This journey He has called us into is one of trial and tribulation, sometimes it can seem to be a bit too much and we even wish we could just go back to being "normal" once again. But the Lord will have none of that and keeps pulling us closer to Him through this refining fire." 

Not suprisingly, there is scripture that addresses this carnal side that we have, that sometimes thinks about what it would be like to "go back."  For those times when we're in the spiritual "desert."

Numbers 20
5 Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!"