Parakalein

Perspective can be everything.

In I Corinthians 2 we read "Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has it entered into the mind of humanity what God has prepared for him".  I love thinking about all God has prepared for me in heaven and reviling in it but that is not the context of this verse.  The context implies that it is the reverse.

What we do not want to see and hear or even imagine is that what God has for us is suffering, frustration, grief, loss, pain, difficulties etc.   Why because they are part of life and God is with us helping us to grow and have insights we would never get without the suffering.  As C S Lewis once said, "Jesus suffered not so we would not have to suffer (that is what we want to think and see) but to teach us how to suffer".  How to grow thru the suffering when our eyes are on what we do not want to see and hold on to the faith that sees Jesus in the suffering.  I have learned this thru the suffering I have walked.

It is why the passage goes on to say if the rulers of that day knew this secret, "they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory".  Thankfully they did not know this secret.  So they caused Jesus to suffer and die thinking that would get ride of him only to discover that that emboldened the message and empowered our salvation.  Thanks be to God.

The secret:  "Christ (the divine Self) is in you and with you always.  The most in the difficult times.  Eyes on Jesus you will learn incredible things beyond what you can imagine.

Thanks be to God.