View Single Post
 
Old Mar 29, 2017, 01:59 PM
Open Eyes's Avatar
Open Eyes Open Eyes is online now
Legendary Wise Elder
 
Member Since: Mar 2011
Location: Northeast USA
Posts: 23,288
So many think that when bad things happen to them God is punishing them or testing them. That is not true. The "hurt" we experience in our lives comes from human beings or earthly catastrophes. The "god" that we turn to is for "our" own development and maintenance of personal spirituality that suffers when we face challenges that hurt us.

If you engage in thinking God is punishing you and laughs at you, you are not embracing the purpose of God at all. A presence that is loving and forgiving is worth embracing on a personal level so that as we go through life we realize that when we struggle and don't have "all the knowledge" we can find our way towards accepting that and in that engage to where we continue to learn and grow as an individual. We learn and grow our entire lives.
Thanks for this!
JadeAmethyst, shadow2000