A man is so good that others look up to him as an example. Suddenly the good man becomes poor, ill health takes over and the people around him wonder why a good man should suffer such adversity. Events such as these elicit all kinds of theories. Some will say we are just like pawns on the chessboard of the gods! Fate just does with people as it wishes. Some have said time and chance happens to them all!
But are we really subject to chance? Somehow that thought runs against all sense of justice. But then the question remains; why do bad things happen to good people?
The human being is endowed with free will to choose the ways he wishes. In my mother tongue the human being is described as an entity who has the capacity to choose! In doing this, man uses the Power that streams through all that exists. This Power is from on High and is pure. As it flows through man, he has the freedom to put it to whatever use and for this he is accountable. This Power when put to noble use achieves that which is beautiful, it brings peace and happiness. If wasted or perhaps put into ignoble use, then the careless or evil minded one must give account to the Lord of all the Worlds the Dispenser of this Pure Power!
Man must simply reap what he has sown. We sow through our words thoughts and deeds. Now the thoughts are not easily discernible by others and therefore the person one sees as the “good man” may actually have a heart filled with hatred and vice! Many men are different in their inner life to what they allow the world to see. I am sure you are aware of this about yourself!
In addition to this is the fact that we live on earth more than once and all of the outings and departures form a single existence. Therefore the results of actions from a former life may now come home to roost in the present earth life. If the opponents of reincarnation are correct, then justice will require that all the for and against of a human being must play out all in a single earth life. This is however never the case!
We do not need to despair concerning our ignoble past if we are now firm in our decision to do only that which is good. When we turn away from our willful disobedience and resolve to be obedient to the Laws of God continuously then our circumstances will change. The returning evil reactions from our past deeds will find no basis of attraction in us anymore and this works out as the forgiveness of our past wrongdoing.
So we really have our destinies in our hands and are much more powerful than chance!
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