{"id":1149,"date":"2006-02-27T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T07:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2006-02-27T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T07:21:11","slug":"life-is-unfair-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/life-is-unfair-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is unfair (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this&#8217;s my last entry on this subject <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how to explain or put it in a clear and sober way&#8230; However the accounts of 3 people I read lately have opened my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>One is a man who&#8217;s struck\u00a0by cancer and was dying of the disease, severely disfigured. Yet together with his wife, they pull through\u00a0all the odds and testifies that love never fails.\u00a0At the highest point of their suffering, they saw the love of\u00a0God expresed\u00a0through Jesus that surpass their sufferings. Life may be unfair to them, but they showed me that there&#8217;re more to live than\u00a0a pleasant live we all dream of. Because He who loves us so much that we could say His love is better than life itself.<\/p>\n<p>Second is from a young\u00a0woman who&#8217;s struck by another disease. It&#8217;s as if life is unfair. That a young woman should be denied a normal and good life by such disease. Where&#8217;s God\u00a0under such situation? Yet she experienced what the couple on top experienced. That in the midst of suffering, God is ever real. His presence is closer than before and His love sweeter than ever. Even disease doesn&#8217;t hold the love of God in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>And the third is another young woman who&#8217;s severely persecuted. Her faith shone extremely bright that touched and changed her persecutors. Where&#8217;s God when such bad and cruel thing should happened?\u00a0God is God that\u00a0through His children He shows the world even the worst of life (be it persecution, disease,\u00a0and death) can&#8217;t triumph over His love.<\/p>\n<p>Can i say that llife is unfair then? Those people would surely stand to oppose me. Because the\u00a0&#8220;ugliness&#8221; of life that they&#8217;ve experienced, they grow to know the intense of God&#8217;s love even more. Would they say that life has been unfair? Yes for the better side! And perhaps from life&#8217;s own perspective, we&#8217;re the foolish creatures, because we see life only one sided. For life is both the good times and the bad times. It&#8217;s really foolish to think that life only good times and therefore bad times shouldn&#8217;t be at all there. Life is fair because it has both the good times and bad times.\u00a0 And the bad times that actually make people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> tired of thinking&#8230;..now is doing my part to make the best use of each times in life&#8230;good and bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this&#8217;s my last entry on this subject I don&#8217;t know how to explain or put it in a clear and sober way&#8230; However the accounts of 3 people I read lately have opened my eyes. One is a man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/life-is-unfair-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[181,218,303,310,311],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","tag-gods-love-2","tag-life","tag-suffering","tag-thots","tag-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1147,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/life-is-unfair-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1149,"position":0},"title":"Life is unfair (2)","author":"clay","date":"February 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I woke up in the middle of nite, and cried. 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