Becoming a Christian; life is harder or easier?

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I interpret in the Bible; Life will be easier to be a Christian, and it’s also said that it’s going to be harder. Which is it?
 
Both are correct. Some aspects of life will be easier, others will be harder.
Some of the harder aspects, as time goes on after living a Christian life, will become easier, and some of the easier aspects can become harder.
 
A reading from the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 11

28 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. 29 Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. 30 For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.

It is bittersweet at times. But remember it is not about this world but the next.
 
If you like the work you do, it becomes easier to bear the hardship of the activity.
 
I think it’s harder because it is so easy to follow the world. If people really follow Christ, they may be persecuted or harassed (like a friend of mine). Some may be killed or lose their livelihoods.

We can’t live a Christian life without God’s help, but God will give that help.
 
I would say it is harder. Pretty much my whole family makes fun of me for my Catholicism.
But at the same time, it has given my life so much more purpose and opened up an entirely new facet of reality to me, so it is worth it in order to serve God.
 
It has been easier for me. I would rather endure all the punishments in the world than to suffer the despair of darkness, as was my past life.
 
souldiver said:
I interpret in the Bible; Life will be easier to be a Christian, and it’s also said that it’s going to be harder. Which is it?
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Excellent question! Please consider the following:

I accept the word, Christian, as meaning Christ-like. Therefore, the process of becoming Christ-like is the most difficult challenge for humanity, however, once Christ-like, life is filled with limitless happiness and unbreakable peace (heaven).
 
I think this can be understood by reading the last paragraph of the discernment article by Peter Kreeft:
God, in giving us all free will, said to us: “Your will be done.” Some of us [Christians] turn back to him and say: “My will is that your will be done.” That is obedience to the first and greatest commandment. Then, when we do that, he turns to us and says: “And now, your will be done.” And then he writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.
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I think that Kreeft is trying to tell us that it is bittersweet to accept God’s will at first when we turn to him, but this will make our lives more amazing than we could beleive
 
It is like breaking a board in karate. If you put all your effort in it the board breaks easily enough, but if you attack it half heatedly you will feel the pain. The problems attached to Christian living is our tendency to try and compromise the gospel to suit ourselves. we need to be single-minded
 
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A reading from the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 11

28 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. 29 Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. 30 For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.

It is bittersweet at times. But remember it is not about this world but the next.
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To elaborate on this, apparently the New Living Translation put its as “My yoke fits perfectly and the burden I give you is light”.

Christ is claiming the load he will put on us is light, compared to what the world will demand.

However against that we have the assurance of persecution, since the world is hostile to Christ and His Church.

John 16:33 NLT
I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.
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So it’s both as stated by others on this thread.
 
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