With human eyes you look upon a person who has had their home destroyed by a tornado, and a person who has just won the lottery as one being terribly unlucky, the other terribly lucky. That's the human perspective, but God sees things differently for he sees the person who has lost everything as one better prepared for the next life, one who is learning that all things earthly evaporate and you cannot put your faith and trust in things of this world. He sees the one who has won the lottery as being unlucky, for having gained unearned ease; that person actually is having a setback spiritually and will have to have many hard lessons to make up for it. Life is full of ups and downs - disasters and triumphs. Both are equally unreal. The only reality is spiritual growth - nothing else really matters. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2001-03-22-Discerning_Truth#Stress.2C_Growth Ham] | With human eyes you look upon a person who has had their home destroyed by a tornado, and a person who has just won the lottery as one being terribly unlucky, the other terribly lucky. That's the human perspective, but God sees things differently for he sees the person who has lost everything as one better prepared for the next life, one who is learning that all things earthly evaporate and you cannot put your faith and trust in things of this world. He sees the one who has won the lottery as being unlucky, for having gained unearned ease; that person actually is having a setback spiritually and will have to have many hard lessons to make up for it. Life is full of ups and downs - disasters and triumphs. Both are equally unreal. The only reality is spiritual growth - nothing else really matters. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2001-03-22-Discerning_Truth#Stress.2C_Growth Ham] |