A thought by Larry Osborne, (2009-04-10) from his book, Spirituality for the Rest of Us: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Knowing God (p. 165). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) That seems like a reasonable assumption don’t you think? Larry says, “We start looking for the lesson to be learned or the sin to be removed. If we can't find anything deserving of God's discipline, we figure that some day soon we'll see how this bad thing was really a good thing, a necessary part of our spiritual growth or future success.” He goes on, “That's why we find it so confusing when we face a major defeat or failure without any seeming connection to sin, or any possible good that we can imagine coming out of it. We begin to question God's goodness and faithfulness. Our deeply ingrained assumption that failure must mean something is spiritually wrong makes it nearly impossible to accept the idea that we can
Continuing a thought from a book I am reading...