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Originally Posted by Igzy
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.
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Good thoughts.
As is obvious by my initial response, I took the reference to "life's tests" as comprehensive, therefore only not there when we reach the other side. But I knew better than to infer that was actually your meaning.
As you might suspect, I drive my wife crazy at times taking things quite literally at face value and thereby intentionally misunderstanding her.
The problem is that sometimes it is not intentional, but happens anyway.
"But you said . . . ."
"You know what I meant!"
"A little presumptive. What if I didn't know that?"
"But you did."
(And occasionally it goes on in circles.)