A call comes in, and the next thing you hear is someone close to you is severely sick, the next few days you hear more sad news and just when you feel like everything will be over, another trouble comes in. Sometimes it looks as if there's a satellite that monitors you and tries to bring you sorrow just when you feel everything will be fine, and you remember the many days you have stayed indoors and cried questioning yourself why everything seems to fall apart. Some will say that's life, others will tell you it's for good, and a few others will encourage you that everything will pass away and it never seems to actually pass away.
I've asked myself this same question a few times with no answers and I resolved to just live, trusting in God and the process until I came across a verse in the Bible that seems to address the worries of men. It may not be comforting, but it at least helps us accept a fate that rests on men. While I pondered deeply on the Bible verse Ecclesiastes 7:14, It helped me understand life in a different perspective and to accept both aspects of it. I call this principle The Balance
Life's vicissitudes in a Glance
Ecclesiastes 7:14 KJV
[14] In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
In summary, this is what it says: Rejoice in time of blessings, but reflect on every situation and your place in it. God has established a balance between good times and bad times. God himself had limited the knowledge of man to know the future or what happens next to show his sovereignty , that everything he does, would have no flaws.
This means, every bad time is a call to reflection. I noticed the only time I reflect most is when trouble comes, I rarely think wide, I consider nothing when good days abide. If we have no days of reflection, we tend to forget God's place and the misled path we have chosen. Why do you think Jesus said the Rich man will find it difficult to enter the kingdom of God? Not entirely because his riches are evil, but because only a few think about God when things go all well.
In the house of mourning, people remember they have only but a short time, making some amend their ways. When calamity hits, we start to see where we have gone wrong and that man is limited in what he controls. Bad times always draw us closer to see our weakness and appreciate God's sovereignty if we reflect. Bad times and good times is God's way of keeping man in check.
