I don’t see life any other way other than an opportunity to trust God. It will mean then we will go through distrustful conditions whereby that trust will be shaken.
Love of God cannot be earned by being good. If so the Kingdom is meant only for the good. No, it is meant for saints and sinners alike. Every one is saved only through the mercy of God. What it means is that we will be tempted to associate the good with the blessing of God and the bad with punishment. No. It is precisely the opposite: when we seemingly lose the good and experience the bad then we become better able to or capable of trusting God. What we think we gain comes from our ego self. The true self will see as everything happening with the knowledge and permission of God, even the loss. The apparent evil will be completely gone someday. We overcome the evil not by avoiding it but by going through it with trust in God as God’s Son Jesus did on the cross
The greater that trust the greater the trust becomes love of God. I already see that in you and your family. Keep trusting even when everything seems to be to the contrary because faith is all about that you do not know. It is about being sure of what you are unsure of. (Response to a friend who finds strength in trusting God the hard way)
