How is This Heavenly? How This, is Heavenly.

If anyone promised you or I that trusting in Christ would bring us a life without toil or trouble, they are walking in an disillusioned 'bubble'. For if not yet, surely toil and trouble will strike them, shaking them to their utter core. To be honest, I too wrestle with the fact that God leaves His Fingerprints on us by allowing difficulty and struggle, and some of us get to do more of that than others which doesn't seem 'fair'. How...is this...heavenly?

I have grown weary of a world whose major premise seems to be that equality of everything will make life...'fair'. Yes, we are created equally human, and have the rights to live and do as we believe, as far as those rights do not remove the rights of individuals to live as they believe. This is why I do not impose my beliefs upon others, feel that legislating beliefs is the answer, or engage in confronting wrong thinking and compelling others to abandon such as my 'cause'. Yet,this is why I do not have the right to take your life, unless you threaten to take mine or the life of those I love. And this too, is why you do not have the right to take my freedom to believe and do, allowing other beliefs to be flaunted in front of me, while squelching my right to humbly 'share' my truth. Many speak of 'tolerance' but only as far as it fits their belief. Many speak of equality, but only as their idea find equal ground as other beliefs or values.

So, in fact, is equality really something that should be grasped? Will equality bring heavenly utopia to our world? It seems we may never know, for complete equality will never be!

Imagine a world where everyone received the same pay for what they did for a living. Where everyone lived in equal estates with equal amounts of toys, and all covered with equal amounts of health care. Isn't this kind of thinking absurd? For those of us who believe in heaven after this life, we know that equality does not exist even there! But satisfaction and absolute unity and peace does exist there, of this we are confident! We will be satisfied, fully satisfied that we are present and together doing as we are supposed to do and be!

God's impression upon our earthly existence is therefore not one of equality, but divine provision and care through every single ordeal and blessing He provides for the good transformation of our unique and individual souls. I have seen the tragedy He brought me through bring comfort to others who face the same types of tragedy years later, in their 'now'. I have seen His hope, His sustenance in the face of incredibly impossible odds rise up in my life and the testimony of His work, provide a rope for others to hold onto while they are hanging above the pit of despair. Others have been my rope in such times of encroaching disaster, of whom I am always eternally thankful for their persistent presence in my life!

I find myself no longer asking the question "Why?", but rather spending better time asking the questions "What? Where? and How?". What do You want me to do? Where do You want me to go? And How do You want me to live and walk as an encourager with them in their time of need? Later, as I have found looking back on the lives of those who asked these questions and followed through in my life, my response to be...How this, is heavenly!!!!