Perfection is not to be found in this world

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It is hard to know where the dividing line is between good &

evil.certainly it is terrible that bacteria kill two billion people

every hundred years. but think of the chaos of overpopulation if

there be no death!and if everything here were good & perfect,no one

would leave this earth of his own accord,no one would want to go back

to god.so in a sense misery is your best friend,because it starts you

seeking god.when you begin to see the imperfections of the world, you

will begin to seek the perfection of god.the truth is that god is

using evil,not to destroy us,but to make us disillusioned with his

toys,with the playthings of this world,so that we might seek him.

 

This is why the lord himself permits injustices & evil.but I have

said to him. " lord you have never suffered.you have always been

perfect.how do you know what suffering is? yet you have put us

through these tests & you had no business doing it.we didn't ask to

be born as mortals & to suffer.He doesn't mind that I argue with

him.He is very patient.The lord answers, " you don't have to go on

suffering,I have given everyone free will to choose good instead of

evil, & thus come back to me. "

 

So evil is the test of god to see if we will choose him or his

gifts.He created us in his image & gave us the power to free

ourselves.But we don't use that power.At night when we cease to be

active,we all become godlike.but in the daytime we become devils---

not all of us but most of us.Why not live in tune with god in the

daytime for then we shall know no fear,we shall know no evil.It is

easy to say this but hard to practice it.

 

While evil in itself is something we don't want,yet it is like

poisoned honey--it is palatable.At the table we are tempted to eat

too much & to eat the wrong things.Then we begin to get fat &

diseases here & there , just where we don't want it.In response to

our wrong actions,nature takes revenge & seems to be poking fun at us

all the time.it is indeed a funny world.But the results of our wrong

actions doesn't seems to be funny to us! that is why I quarrel with

god & scold him,why have you created all of these terrible

temptations that your children succumb to? why have you made them so

pleasurable? well that is the trick of god--if you are going to act

like a idiot, you deserve to suffer.

 

The god says , I made you in my image, & you ought to behave like me " .

 

I say, but lord they don't know they are made in your image " .

 

His response is, well my saints are trying to tell them I am not

going to force them to do good " .

 

But why did you put us in this mess? you have never been in this

quagmire of delusions,why did you put us here?

 

This is where the lord smiles & answers, " that is how it is & what is

the way it is to be "