The unfortunate outcome of a situation does not always mean failure. Even if for various reasons the happiness of some people can be the unhappiness of others, the fact that some people cry while others are happy does not mean that the rest of life will be like that. In fact, for X reasons, everyone experiences moments of doubts, weaknesses, failure, joy, happiness, unhappiness which for those who have hope are only episodes of life which have a time and which mean that for all those who put their trust in God and in Jesus in particular there are only present joys and joys to come. In other words, pain, misfortune and even failures are events of life allowing us to experience grace upon grace or to move from glory to glory for the greater glory of the one in whom we have placed our trust.
The apostle Saint Paul says in Romans 8:18: “I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. (Good News Bible with Deuterocanonical Books) » He said it because those who call themselves children of God and in particular those who became so through Christ are children of hope. But even if they are citizens of heaven, that is to say, a privileged people for whom Christ himself went to prepare an eternal home of joy in the intimacy of the Father after their earthly pilgrimage, they will see also the manifestations of the glory of God during their lifetime. So therefore, if one day I will go or I will be in heaven, that is to say in a state of intimacy of total and eternal joy with God, I will also experiment during my earthly life, that is to say in the present world, the beginnings of this total happiness to come.
Why is there suffering in human life?
This is a question best asked of Men and not of God. The authors of the creation story that we recall is a Word of God according to Christians in particular, let us know that God created everything in seven days and that by contemplating each of his creations, he saw that they were good or beautiful. This means that God never created anything bad. Evil is a creation of Men. He (Men) made and continues to make the free choice to be envious, greedy, liar, miserly, perverse, proud, jealous and murderous to the point where to save Men, Christians let the world know that it was necessary that Christ died for some on a cross, for others on a one-way wood because of the evil that Men created to save Men, that is to say, to free him from everything that held him and holds him captive from his bad inclinations to allow him to fully enjoy the joy of being or becoming a child of God.
The cruelty of Men will never overcome the hope of the children of God. Men certainly suffer because their fellow men are evil, but their hope will never be disappointed for several reasons. Firstly because the fight for justice is a fight for life. If some die for justice, others will continue the fight until justice is done. Secondly, because being a child of hope means fighting for just causes even if this means that we must suffer and even die in the love of God. Thirdly because even if the freedom or the end of the worries of the children of hope is certain and is a sign of a radiant future, this future can also result in a change in the bad mentality or bad morality of our persecutors. Such a change is even more beneficial for the rest of the fight because having ex-persecutors in your ranks is an additional advantage. The evangelist Saint Luke tells us in Luke 15:7 “ there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. (New American Standard Bible 1995) » Why? Because whoever joins the ranks already represents a victory which announces other victories to come.
Hoping for something better from a bad world
The best we hope for in a perverted world can only come from ourselves and what we do at our level to obtain something better. To overcome the evil or cruelty of our fellow human beings on a daily basis, we must persevere in good works that is to say, always do what is good despite everything. But it is not a question of accepting anything in the name of a love that accepts everything. It is about fighting not only with the help of the Spirit of God who is in Us and thanks to the legitimate means that the law offers us and not to do justice to ourselves.
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Even when we have the means to do justice to ourselves, it is preferable to let the justice of God which is also manifested by that which is honestly rendered by Men. For this the apostle Saint Paul recommends in Romans 12, 21: “be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good. (Douay-Rheims Bible) » If we are not in fact always well placed to feel the evil that the actions of some engender on others to the point of wanting to triumph over evil with evil, we think that it is better to trust in God's justice by allowing the legal ways of righteousness to take their course. It is not, for example, by taking the lives of those who have harmed us that we will truly achieve justice. For example, an individual cannot insult us or denounce our misdeeds and to do us justice we take him away, or we contribute to taking his life. This is an injustice which perfectly reflects the fact that Men very often has a tendency, depending on his means to give lessons to others to make them not want to do it again. In fact, Men does not have the right to take justice into his own hands. But since we are in societies governed by a set of laws which boils down to respect for the life and property of others, Men has the right to take justice into his own hands by using only the legal means of justice. When a Men decides to take justice into his own hands without taking these paths, the risk of slipping up is never far away because anger and excess of power can sometimes led us to produce the irreparable. And it is to prevent Men from reaching this point that Saint Paul lets us know in the 19th verse of the 12th chapter of his letter to the Romans: "Never take revenge, my friends, but instead let God’s anger to do it. For the scriptures says: [I will take revenge, I will pay back says the LORD.” (Good News Bible with Deuterocanonical Books)
Some people sometimes find themselves incarcerated for having done worse than what was done to them. These are scandalous acts that never bring anything good. What the world needs are people who use legal means to complain and take justice or to simply assume what they are, and make the choice of conversion to act from now on as they should after having faced their responsibilities.
The legal avenues of justice are not obscure. They are clear. Everything that is done in the sense of making injustices triumph is the product of cowardice and hypocrisy which generates nothing good unlike the courage of the truth which translates into the fact of assuming one's responsibility, accepting even to be insulted and encourage the youngest not to follow the same path but to never tire of hoping for something better in a world where sometimes even the legal paths of justice sometimes seem to be perverted. If each person does not make an effort to change on a daily basis, the world will not help them change. And the task is even more difficult for those who call themselves children of God; they must preach by example even more despite their multiple misdeeds which sometimes lead one to wonder if really God exists? Even if we are convinced that everyone knows exactly what they must do, we still remember that conversion is an absolute necessity in the daily life of every Men who need to be or remain children of Hope.
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