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Originally Posted by OBW
Igzy,
A little off topic, but I note your new byline:
Q: How do you know when you've passed life's tests?
A: When they don't feel like tests anymore
I think that it only is partly true. When a particular test no longer feels like a test, you may have passed that one. But there is always another.
However, if you don't think you have any tests, there are only two possibilities (from my way of thinking): - You have died and it is pencils down.
- You are deluded and have stopped moving forward through the never-ending (in this lifetime) chain of tests.
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I'm glad you noticed it. The presumption of my maxim is that a person is being honest and not deluding himself.
The idea came to me when I was complaining to the Lord about something that kept occurring in my life and kept annoying me. I asked, "Haven't I passed this test yet?!" I felt his answer was if I had passed it I wouldn't be complaining about it in the manner I was. That is, if it didn't bother me anymore then that would show it wasn't testing me anymore. Whether it stopped or continued then would make less difference, because I could handle either circumstance.
We often ask, "Why is this happening?" The answer is, always, because we need it to happen. The bottom line is how well we can accept that.
I don't think we ever reach a point where
nothing tests us, at least on this side of the veil. But we can reach a point where less things test us.