Integrity

I want to know what it feels like to do the right thing......

I want to know what I would feel, if all that I did was right in the eyes of God. No feeling righteous for my merits, but feeling like I have made it - doing what is right and finding great joy in it.

One important condition here......in the eyes of God. Who am I to determine the quality of my actions? Motivations? Hearts desires? I am interested in many things that I would not want my kids to deal with - maybe they would not be able to handle them or to make right decisions when faced by the outcome of certain steps.

Job did the right thing. Things. Here and there. He was content, yet hard working. He was blameless, yet he was pleading for his family's sake. It must be few levels above what I am used to. Peers can affect you greatly. Earnings, accomplishments, locale, friends - is that what makes me as a person? My views, beliefs, opinions and rules don't get me far. But they can be a right map for planning out my actions and hold myself in the eyes of others, but more importantly, in the eyes of God, as one who looks ahead and one who looks up to a better life to come, starting with a better now.

Why Suffering Exists. MPOV.

Weekly Sabbath School Lesson has posted this questions for the reader:
Write out a paragraph explaining, the best you can, your understanding of why suffering exists in the world despite God's love for it.

The origin and justification of evils can take volumes to explain and understand. What is certain, is that the world as we know it, where we live, is given to the reigns of Satan. One's ability to thrive is to know that they are able to make a difference. Making that difference can either be positive or negative. Prison is feared for the very reason that it limits us from being able to do things. Solitary confinement is so much more feared, for when you are alone, you can neither do good nor bad to anyone but yourself.

Satan's work, the rampage of evil, is a progression of one's accomplishment. It can be damaging, striking, impressive, complicated, sublime, contagious, addictive, destructive and prospering. All is the fruit of the one who decided to do all possible in order to thwart the Name that gives us true peace.

Evil exists because one cannot accept God's love, therefore the darkness presides in him.


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