Realization #09: There is no such thing as a cruel or unjust challenge.
Most importantly, as God is innately loving and just, any trial we are experiencing is inherently within our power to overcome (“No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.” ~ 1 Corinthians 10:13). Indeed, the more pain we are experiencing in any moment, the more powerful we must be to have called such an intense challenge to ourselves; a difficulty that we are guaranteed to transcend as long as we persist in Faith-full Love – both towards God as well as towards the neighbor/enemy that seems to be causing our pain …
“To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless, and grow weary from the work of our hands. And yet, when reviled we Bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we speak kindly. … So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of Glory beyond all measure” ~ Paul (in 1 Corinthians 4:11-13 & 2 Cor. 4:16-17)
In short, he or she who persists in Love, especially in those times when most tempted to be selfish (i.e. when in pain), will attain a full realization of the glory that comes from acting as a Child of God …
“Show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of faith to the very end, so that you may not become sluggish, but rather be imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the Promises.” ~ Hebrews 6:12 … “Recall the earlier times when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings … Do not, therefore, abandon your confidence; it brings great reward. For you need endurance, so that when you have done the Will of God you may receive what is promised.” ~ Hebrews 10:32+35-36 … “But those who look into he perfect law, the Law of Liberty, and persevere, being not mere hearers who forget but doers who act – they will be Blessed in the their Doing.” ~ James 1:25
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