It’s as if we trusted a financial consultant, investing our entire life’s savings by following his advice to the letter. Our investment keeps building and building, then suddenly nose-dives. Panic-stricken, we run to our consultant angrily accusing him. “Don’t you remember?” he replies, taken aback, “I specifically said there is no guarantee there will never be downward fluctuations. We agreed this was a mid-to-long-term investment. My guarantee has always been that in the long term you’ll be thrilled with the result.”

It’s silly to have the attitude that if God does not offer an iron-clad guarantee of total physical protection on earth we’ll choose to throw our lives away and spend an eternity of agony in hell. It’s like refusing surgery on a deadly tumor because cutting your toenails is not included in the operation. No one else offers total physical protection, so why deny ourselves all the unique comfort God offers?

Taken from If anyone has reason to hate God, it’s Sue

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