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NO! MOST EMPHATICALLY NO!
Reality does NOT tell me that by a long shot.
King David said he had never seen the righteous foresaken nor their seed begging bread.
There IS a reaping for righteousness sown that is enormously above, better than the reaping of unrighteousness.
Ignorance of that is pitiful, pathetic ignorance of the worst sort.
Yes, God does not seem to have such things set up in a strict digitized vending machine instantaneous fashion.
The complexities are plenty and the delays can seem excruciatingly drawn out for ages. We are not, per se, rats in the skinner box with the food pellet dispenser and electric grid all wired in to instant reinforcements and punishments.
The complexity is likely tied in somehow to our subjective experience of whatever degree of free-will is our existential thrownness in that moment and context.
God is not interested in being our Great Heavenly Vending Machine & Instant Imperfection Shredder. He's interested in being our Father and Friend.
The dance is not hop-scotch. It is a complex choreography of HIS leading. He wants us to follow, flow with Him. He also wants to delight us beyond our dreams.
Our delight in all ways is tied super tightly to the degree of our delight IN HIM. That alone is safe for us and for Creation.
Oh, I guess, then it must be right, LOL! Keep telling yourself that. In fact why don;t you go to swetashops of Bombay or the slums of Rio or the killing fields of Darfur and tell the suffering Christians that! It's easy to believe fairy tales from the comfort of one's home, belly, full, feet warm, seeing the world through rose-colored glasses...and psychosis helps too.
God is not interested in being our Great Heavenly Vending Machine & Instant Imperfection Shredder. He's interested in being our Father and Friend
Oh, yes, of course, that's why the world he loved so much is suffering so much...