Hebrews 2:8 … In subjecting all things (09/03/16)
“Now in subjecting all things to them,
God left nothing outside their influence.”
~ unknown (Hebrews 2:8)
What more than a few Christians (and a few non-Christians as well) forget when reading this verse is the fact that, while an all-Loving God will continually influence us all to Do Good (and thereby inspire us to come to know the real Bliss that only comes to those who willingly self-sacrifice for others), He cannot demand that we do so … LOVE is only potent when given freely (especially win those moments we least wish to do so, and especially for those “least deserving” of the same), and as such Love is feeble and powerless without an unhindered opportunity to refuse to give it.
Likewise, while an all-Loving God has seemingly given us all the power to turn our misfortunes into opportunities for Peace and our trials into opportunities for personal empowerment, He has not given us the power over the Flow of Life itself. In other words, we have relatively little influence over what happens to us, even though we do have complete control over how we respond to the same – that we cannot do anything about the inevitability of “bad things” happening to us, and yet are always fully free to use those difficult &/or dis-eased situations to empower all subsequent deeds of Kindness — thereby exponentially enhancing all subsequent sensations of Peace.
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