My Favorite Verses - Vol III (Aug 16 to Nov 16)

Hebrews 2:8 … In subjecting all things
(09/03/2016)
“Now in subjecting all things to them,
God left nothing outside their influence.”
~ unknown (Hebrews 2:8)
What more than a few Christians (and a few non-Christians as well) forget when
reading this verse is the fact that, while an all-Loving God will continually
influence us all to Do Good (and thereby inspire us to come to know the real Bliss that
only comes to those who willingly self-sacrifice for others), He cannot demand that we
do so ... For LOVE is only potent when given freely (especially win those moments
we least wish to do so, and especially for those "least deserving" of the same), and as
such Love is feeble and powerless without an unhindered opportunity to refuse to
give it … Likewise, while an all-Loving God has seemingly given us all the power
to turn our misfortunes into opportunities for Peace and our trials into
opportunities for personal empowerment, He has not given us the power over the
Flow of Life itself.
In other words, we
have relatively little
influence over what
happens to us, even
though we do have
complete control over
how we respond to the
same – that we cannot
do anything about the
inevitability of “bad
things” happening to
us, and yet are always
fully free to use those
difficult &/or dis-eased
situations to empower
all subsequent deeds of
Kindness -- thereby
deeply enhancing all
subsequent sensations
of deep-seated Peace.
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