Would perfect really be better?
If your mother always baby-fed you,...would you ever learn to operate a spoon?
And if your father carried you everywhere,
...would your legs ever gain strength?
If you never fell off your bike and skinned your knee,
...would you ever really learn balance, or the value of it?
And if your big brother always bailed you out,
...would you be able to cope when older, and alone?
If your life was perfect from the beginning,
...would you ever know the delight of accomplishing something?
Or if you never felt pain or anguish,
...would you ever really know joy, by its contrast?
If God fashioned our lives to perfectly suit our requests,
...would it really be worth it at all?
"If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it." ~Hebrews 12:7-11
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