You have to take the bad to be able to apprehend and appreciate the good.
That is exactly what my mother taught me!
You have to take the bad to be able to apprehend and appreciate the good.
You have to take the bad to be able to apprehend and appreciate the good.
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I think he meant to say “comprehend” instead of “apprehend”. Sometimes our fingers get ahead of our mind.
There is much wisdom in his statement.
The Lord Jesus Christ says we are commanded to be like Him. If we obey the commandments we will become like Jesus and receive, or inherit with Him all that His Father has.
This is not a willy nilly idea. We have come here to learn and obey, to prove ourselves able to handle what God so wants to give us. Our afflictions are for us to learn from. All of us are going to die, don’t think you are going to go through life without something bad happening to you. What you do with what things happen to you is a measure of your maturity in The Gospel. The Lord has told us to be prepared. I don’t believe that just means love The Lord, I believe it also means if you live in a Hurricane prone area then build a house that will withstand the hurricane or move. It means getting medical check-ups, it means getting an education of some type so you are not tossed around by every wind of doctrine so to speak.
If we do those things, if we are prepared by living close to God then when the afflictions come we will try to learn from them or be prepared to not be hurt by them. We will be more prepared to help others when these things happen to them.
We all need to grow from our afflictions and appreciate them for the learning opportunity they are.
To me, the people who cry about God allowing them to have to go through pain and suffering are the same people who believe that since they “accepted” Jesus then they are saved and shouldn’t have to go through pain and suffering. Well The Lord Jesus also tells us to endure to the end. To me you endure hard, difficult things. Life is hard and not always rosy. We need to learn to Love the Lord despite the pain and sufferings, we need to understand what others are going through when we have pain and suffering and be more willing since we understand and have experienced suffering.
Jesus Christ suffered more than you ever will. He understands.